Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

> > Original poster: "Matthew Inman by way of Terry Fritz
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <twycross3-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Can also be used on a
>	Tesla coil (below breakout).

"Ay, there's the rub"

None of the coils the Group has ever made are capable of a "Before Breakout" 
condition. Every bang of the spark gap results in breakout, every time. The 
breakout may be really short (Depending on tune). But our coil has a 1/2turn 
area of tune so it's either all or nothing. We've never had a situation 
where it was properly setup and didn't have streamers, even if they were 
only 5BPS as we turned the variac up.

The ion motor I have seen was run WELL beyond breakout and worked great.

Has anyone ever made one of the pendulums like mine before? I'd like to know 
if it's been researched. If not....I'm really on my own, and that would 
bite, however, I *could* give it a name :) The Boden Electrostatic 
Pendulum...not as cool as a Potter-Bucky Diaphram (don't ask me what it is,I 
don't know. I just know I have one in stock.).....but cool, lol

duck


btw: What's a Potter-Bucky Diaphram?



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