[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: Spinning pipes



> Original Poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <mopar-at-uswest-dot-net> 
> 
> Alfred,
> 
> > Original Poster: alfred.skrocki.sr-at-juno-dot-com (Alfred A Skrocki)
> >
> > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:59:42 -0700 Barton B. Anderson
> > <mopar-at-uswest-dot-net> wrote:
> >
> > >...I designed and built a squirl-cage RSG using ~6" x 1/2" copper pipe.
> > >There are two disks with 8 pipes. Since the rotational force would be
> > >great at high rpm, I built this with as tight a tolerance as possible.
> > >The fixed electrodes are 5/8" spheres connected to a 5" x 1/2" bolt.
  :
  :
  :
> I thought about this originally, but at the time couldn't figure out a good
> way to mount the piping solidly to the fixed electrodes. However, after
> figuring out the mounting for the spheres, adding the piping will not be a
> problem. I would not use 6" length on the fixed pipe as I want to arc across
> a single pipe which means the fixed pipe length would be around 2" length.
> 
> I'll give it a try.
> 
> Bart

Bart - did you ever put up a sketch of this gap? 

I think I just hit headfirst into a misconception as to how this thing is
arranged...

My vision of the system was a number of 6" lengths of copper pipe, mounted
around the periphery of a rotor, so that all the pipes are parallel to the
axis. Basically, a spinning, cylinderical cage. Outside this cage, you
mounted a pair of spherical terminals, presumably opposite each other. The
arc fires when a pair of pipes is closest to the pair of electrodes, and
quenches as the rotor pulls the pipes farther away.

>From your answer above, it sounds more like the pipes on the rotor are
mounted end to end around the rim, approximating a rough circle.

????????????????

Dave