Re: [TCML] Spark gap quandary

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I think Ed Wingate does something like what you describe with his big coil. I recall seeing 3 or 4 stater electrodes when I was visiting at it a while back. but i don't remember how they were connected. 



Thanks, 
John "Jay" Howson IV 


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Subject: Re: [TCML] Spark gap quandary 





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Here is a thought...may not be a good one: 

Has anyone tried making a rotary gap such that you have three static gaps set up on a bus in a equilateral triangle on each side of the rotor with four rotary electrodes? It would not take much to design such and one could get three times the number of sparks per revolution and the static gaps themselves would only see a third of the heat from the sparks. This idea could be extended to about any configuration with more electrodes and then one could have a great many firings per second. The only thing needed to be remembered is to not design it such that two gaps come into play simultaneously. 
Mike 
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> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of Weinhold Shannon L 
> Sent: 10 February 2012 00:48 
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> 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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