Re: Russian high-voltage installation (being scrapped?)

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Terry,
I went to this site and read the information. From what I gather from what 
it says, this facility is still in operation. It says that the facility is 
available for testing purposes and gives contact phone numbers for this 
purpose.
Paul
Think Positive

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To: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" 
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Subject: Re: Russian high-voltage installation (being scrapped?)

> Original poster: Terry Fritz 
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>
> More pictures:
>
> 
<http://www.niipt.spb.ru/sections/isp_en.html>http://www.niipt.spb.ru/sections/isp_en.html
>
> Same place, perhaps, except with pictures showing things in better repair.
> Or perhaps a different facility with some identical gear...
>
>
>
>>Hi Antonio,
>>
>>I asked around and Bill Lemieux knew ;-))
>>
>>Bill writes....
>>
>>   Siberian Research Institute of Power Engineering.
>>
>>   Looks awfully defunct now, judging from those pictures.  Not
>>surprising, given the state of the economy of there.  I'll bet that
>>whole site is contaminated with PCB's.
>>
>>   I expect this is probably the "huge spark" picture you saw:
>>
>>http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm#Longspark
>>
>>   However, it is not clear that the impulse generator (I only assume
>>that's what it is) in the new pictures is the same one as in the old
>>pictures - the scale would appear to be different, and the number of
>>field equalization / anti-corona rings is definitely different.
>>
>>   - Gomez
>>..........................................................
>>Bannister's Law of Current Limiting: EVERYTHING is a fuse.
>>
>>---------
>>Cheers,
>>
>>         Terry
>>
>>
>>At 05:28 PM 4/30/2005, you wrote:
>>>Hi all:
>>>
>>>A friend from Russia sent me this link:
>>>http://flyback.org.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2484#2484
>>>
>>>I think that I saw a picture somewhere of a huge spark coming from
>>>something as the large cylindric object that appears in some of the 
pictures.
>>>Do someone have informations about this place?
>>>
>>>Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
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