Re: Tesla Diodes home made?

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Ed: Research in isotopic separation or acceleration of electromagnetic waves
requires continous output fron your device to provide sufficent production
for evaluation at a practical yeald. Power sources such as the Vandegraph
are good power sources for singel event research, but not for continious
use. The cost of production of a single gram of Osmium is over 300K$. By
using a TC as the power source the production cost are a fraction. The
problen is providing DC power to maintain proper bias on the acellerator
plates. This power is generaly about 2 MegV per plate set. The TC with NO
toroid easly provides this potencial, but is AC not DC so it must be
rectified and stored before use. The Corona rectifiers provide sufficent
current and DC for this use. Storage is the same as the Vandigraph,but is
available for continious use. No this not brute force power for lighting
like EDISON power requirements but in the lab it is A GOD SENT SOURCE OF
HIGH VOLTAGE POWER. The rectifiers are simple, sufficent area to provide
current to over-come losses. The spacing is sufficent to avoid arc over.
With NO toroid the arc length is controlable and free of random sparks and
voltage problems.. A series of carona rectifiers gives clean DC with little
rippel. Standard ball discharge regulators control over voltage and can be
controled with simple input power control. Size and cost is small in
relation to other methods.  NO is is not pritty like Govt/tax suported work.
   Robert  H  

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:39:07 -0600
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> Subject: Re: Tesla Diodes home made?
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> Resent-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:46:01 -0600
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> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> 
> Tesla list wrote:
>> 
>> Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
>> 
>> Ed: I am glad to hear this , I will run out and tell my linier accelerator
>> rectifier what you said so it can stop to follow your rule. They wernt told
>> Robert  H
> 
> Robert:
> 
> More details please.  What is the forward breakdown voltage and
> conduction voltage at some peak current, and what are the reverse
> breakdown voltage and leakage currents?  Apparently I misread the
> original note, as I thought it had to do with rectifying the HV output
> of a TC to draw POWER from it; in that application it would have to have
> low forward voltage and reverse leakage to be useful.  Rectifiers using
> assymetrical electrodes have been around for a very long time and,
> before the days when radio interference was important, used in some
> electrostatic precipitators.  Early cold-cathode rectifiers for "B
> Battery Eliminators" worked on a similar principle except that they were
> operated in a low pressure gas (helium or argon, as far as I can tell)
> envelope.
> 
> Ed
> 
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