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Re: Displacement Current Revisited



On 03/15/99 11:51:43 you wrote:

[Terry, would you post my post to the list?  I think it's important that
folks realize that different instruments are required to measure different 
things.  Thanks RWW]

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>>Terry,
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>>At the 1998 TCBOR Teslathon Mark Rzeszotarski
>>demonstrated one of your planar antenna(s).  Folks were most pleased 
>>with his demonstration of the planar antenna(s).  
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>>It's correct one is sensitive to the ES field.  The other is sensitive 
>>to the EM field and is 90 degrees phase shifted.  Dispalcement current 
>>plays no part here.
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>Ok,  I wasen't following the thread well so I was not sure...  Glad to here
>people are finding the plane antennas usefull in their work!
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>>It's imperative that correct instruments are used to detect any of these 
>>different Tesla coil signals.  The instrument must be designed to detect 
>>one and only one type of electrical "field" and reject the other.
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>>A differencing instrument electrometer with high CMRR (110-120 dB) will 
>>reject essentially all EM signals applied to both inputs.  It will easily 
>>measure ES differential signals.  
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>>A simple wide band RF antenna and amplifier will detect EM fields, 
>>but not an ES field.
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>The antennas ar far better than a simple peice of wire for sure.
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>>I put both types of pickups and amplifiers in a single cabinet so both 
>>types of fields around a TC may be monitored at the same time.  I mount 
>>the two small PC boards on the back of the mounting screws of both meters.  
>>They are very compact and the handheld instrument is quite portable. 
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>>R. Wall
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>Cheers,
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>        Terry
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