Re: Effect of UV on topload

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Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>

A) Photoelectric effect. So, yes.
B) ? I'm guessing you'll have to measure it to see. I'd imagine it
will depend a -lot- on the Q without exposure.
C) With the loads of power pumped in, I'd guess that you'd have a
hard time seeing the affects. If it were enough to change Q by a
meaningful amount I'd also expect it to make breakdown require less
voltage, too.
D) Dunno.

Steve Greenfield

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Paul Nicholson by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk>
> 
> 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?

> b) Does shining hard UV onto a TC topload or secondary coil make
> a measureable difference to Q factor?

> c) Can direct sunlight impinging on a coil set up outdoors have
> an
> impact on the Q factor?

> d) Does Terry by any chance have a hard UV lamp?  Eprom eraser,
> etc?


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