RE: SIlly idea

["sundog" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi all!
Thanks for the input on this, silly as it is :)
  I seem to remember a page somewhere that explained mercury rectifiers for
high voltage/current.  Firstly, *NO* i am *NOT* going to make one.  1, I
don't have the mercury in sufficient quantity, 2 I don't like the idea of
mercury vapor in the air i'm breathing, plus all the "neat" things it
creates when blasted with HV.  I'm just after the info on it.   I may be
silly, but there's things I just won't mess with.  Now I'm looking at all
the other "neat" stuff to slap on top of the coil.  But above all, anything
edible I've used as a discharge point has taken on a horrible
metallic/tinfoil flavor.  Just ugh man...

Research : The reasoning behind trying something when its not apparent it
will work, or a feasible method of toasting stuff. :)

      Laters!
									Sundog

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Original poster: "rwall" <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>

Not much will happen.  Although at very high potential, a TC termination
alternates through both positive and negative peaks during each cycle.
Theoretically both negative and positive peaks are equal.  Without some sort
of rectification the trash can capacitor will not charge to any significant
potential.  Secondly the trash can capacitance added to the termination will
severely detune the coil.  If you are even able to tune the coil it probably
will cease acting like a TC.

RWW


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Subject: SIlly idea


> Original poster: "sundog" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
>
>     Hi all!  Just a dumb-silly idea....A capacitor is 2 conductors
> separated by an insulator.  Right-o.  What if I took a small TC
> (maybe 8" winding length).  Got a 55 gallon HDPE trash can, and
> applied AL foil to the outside and inside (a 55 gallon Leyden jar),
> and used a xmission line from the TC to charge it.  Think it'd do
>
[snippers!]