Re: Radar Diganostics

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

But, what you want to do is "probe" the spark environment... and a network
analyzer, perhaps at mm wave (making it even MORE expensive), might be the
way to do it...   Personally, I think optical approaches have more
promise... you can do imaging, if nothing else.

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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Radar Diganostics


> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Network analyzers put out a small signal and get back a signal after it
has
> gone through some components (the network) and it tells you what is there.
> It is not very useful for anything that has power applied.  They are very
> sensitive to external power sources and they burn up easily (guess how I
> know this :-))  They are used to measure complex impedances but only at
> tiny power levels.  Many uses for coiling, but only without power applied.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>
> At 05:23 PM 2/22/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >Jim mentions "network analyzers".  I'm not brave enough to even think
> >about using a $100 k instrument around a coil.  How would you ever be
> >able to explain it to the boss?
> >
> >Ed
> >
>
>