Big Flywheel approach to synchronous RSG

["Richard Kircher" <richard.kircher-at-worldnet.att-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

All,
	Here is an untried idea for coming up with a motor for a synchronous
rotary spark gap.  I suggest using a DC motor with a huge flywheel to allow
creeping in on the proper 60 cycle phase and frequency using a simple
control system.  

	A tachometer would detect speed and phase.  It could be just a magnet
passing by a coil like what is used for add-on speed control systems in
cars.  A simple digital flip-flop type phase detector with a hefty power
transistor is used to control the speed of the motor.  

	DC motors, unlike AC motors have excellent voltage versus speed
characteristics when driven by the output of the phase detector.  All
mechanical and electrical control loop time constants would be very slow
and therefore stable and easy to control precisely.

	The power company phase and frequency certainly is stable.  The flywheel
would do the same for the DC motor.  Synchronous phase would be as easy to
control as keeping two 100 car railroad trains nose-to-nose on parallel
railroad tracks at 90 MPH with minor throttle adjustment to one of the
engines.  

	Maybe the size of the flywheel would be impractical, but I don't see why
since there is little variability in the load of a spinning disk with
electrodes so the flywheel would not have to be that big.  Any comments are
welcome on what might be a ridiculous idea.

Dick