Re: [TCML] Spark gap quandary

[Matt Siri <mattisonsiri@xxxxxxxxx>]

The main problem that I see would be that, as the disc-arc interference occurs, the arc would travel around the disc before its interruption.  This would lead to destruction/carbonization of the disc.
An oxygen-free environment may be a solution (as long as the disc material wasn't self oxidizable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NJI3ZG6G_U).


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 From: Weinhold Shannon L <Shannon.L.Weinhold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:47 PM
Subject: [TCML] Spark gap quandary
 
Hello all. 
So I was doodling some ideas for a rotary spark gap I am thinking of
building and an idea came to me. 
I envisioned a rotary spark gap utilizing a electrode-less spinning disk
equipped with slots...fashioned in such a way so that the gap could only
fire when the stationary electrodes were aligned with one of the slots.
I'm thinking it could be pretty thin so that the stationary electrodes
would be in close enough proximity that they would naturally arc if
there was no barrier, and that the slots would be inset enough from the
edges of the disc so that the arc could not wrap around the edge of the
disk and make a connection during the break.
Seems like it would make for faster quenching (immediate) and the slots
could perhaps even be variable so that they could be tuned, allowing for
a specific duration of connectedness. (I believe you folks refer to this
as dwell?) 
No flying electrodes to worry about cleaning or machining into a form. 
Is it too good to be true?
(I get it named after me if it works...lol)


Shannon Weinhold
Klasdja Intelligent Innovations


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