Re: Effect of UV on topload

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

At 01:31 PM 4/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Some questions on the effect that hard UV has on electroscopes,
>toploads and secondary coils:
>
>a) Is the UV in sunlight hard enough to discharge an electroscope?
>
>if so,
>
>b) Does shining hard UV onto a TC topload or secondary coil make a
>measureable difference to Q factor?
>
>if so,
>
>c) Can direct sunlight impinging on a coil set up outdoors have an
>impact on the Q factor?
>
>and, er, 
>
>d) Does Terry by any chance have a hard UV lamp?  Eprom eraser, etc?

I have sun light and the UV here is really high do to the dry air and altitude.

Just could put a coil outside on a dry day with top load...  But the sun
would heat the coil "considerably" which may hide any solar effects.  I
don't have any UV lights that would matter.

Cheers,

	Terry