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Rotary Gap Design
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: Rotary Gap Design
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:05:19 -0500
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From: lod@pacbell.net [SMTP:lod@pacbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 1:16 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Rotary Gap Design
Andrew Chin wrote:
> Just wondering whether anyone has designed a rotary gap with two rotors
> instead of one rotor with stationary electrodes. What I'm trying to picture
> here is two rotors with X electrodes. The rotors are mounted like they were
> gears, but instead the rotors spin in the same direction. The relative
> velocity of the electrodes is then doubled so quenching would
> presumably be higher. Overheating of the stationary electrode would then
> be redundant.
You must have stat electrodes somewhere, unless the entire coil rotates.
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