RE: Rotary gap safety - RE: spark gap muffler?

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi All

With the following formula, you can reproduce the table below. 

v = (Pi)wd/1056 where v = tangential velocity, w = RPM, d = diameter of
disc, and Pi = 3.14159. 

Godfrey Loudner

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> Subject:	Re: Rotary gap safety - RE: spark gap muffler?
> 
> Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> > > >Hi Terry, Chris, et al!
> > > >
> > > >Here is a quick table of how fast things are thrown from the edge of
> a 
> >disk
> > > >running at 3600 RPM. As you can see, things get real nasty, real
> quick.
> > > >Diam    Tangential
> > > >(in.)        velocity (mph)
> > > >4.00 42.8
> > > >5.00 53.5
> > > >6.00 64.3
> > > >7.00 75.0
> > > >8.00 85.7
> > > >9.00 96.4
> > > >10.00 107.1
> > > >11.00 117.8
> > > >12.00 128.5
> > > >
> > > >Matt D.
> > >
> > > Great chart Matt, but if we evaluate 128 mph, it is only about 1/7
> > > the speed of a normal bullet, and my 30-30 lead bullet weighs close
> > > to what a 3/8" X 1" tungsten electrode would. :)
> > > Steel plate isn't out of the question though, very compact, just
> > > expensive, I'd probably use wood if I had a need to armor.
> > > I agree that steel is a good idea for a publicly exposed unit!
> >
> >
> >
> >I agree! When dealing with the public, it only takes one "Oh S _ _ _ !"
> to
> >wipe out a lot of accumulated "Bravos!"
> 
> Fortunately, with our demonstartions, any mistakes (frying a piece of
> gear, 
> etc) usually look like part of the demo. By the time a given piece of gear
> 
> makes it to the demo it has been tested a couple hundred times in the
> shop. 
> We try to push it as much as we dare in the lab, but only 80% of capacity
> in 
> a demo, that way we're less likely to smoke something in public.
> 
> It took us about a year to learn how to do decent demos though. Our early 
> Tesla Coil demos were of varyable length and always ended when something 
> failed. We literally would hope to make it at least about 10 minutes of 
> total run time and the demo went until the gap melted, or the caps 
> punctured, etc...
> 
> It's so nice to be ahead of the curve now, lol
> 
> 
> 
> True, the velocity is much less than
> >a 30-30 bullet,
> 
> ahhh but the mass is far more :) Our rotor is spinning at 1800, with 12 
> electrodes made from a 1.5" long .5" brass bolt. These things are very 
> heavy. They're drilled out for 3/32" tungsten electrodes.
> 
> 
> but as mothers all over the world have said about BB guns,
> >"You'll put your eye out with that"
> >
> >Matt D.
> >Q. Do parachutes fail to open very often?
> >A No, just once.
> 
> duck
>