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Re: generators( was NST Inductance)



> >Hi All,
> > With all this talk about generators Maybe someone might like to try my
> >idea of hanging a rotary gap off the end of the shaft.

	A number of radar transmitters used during WW2 used rotary spark gaps
in the modulators for the magnetrons.  Some portable radar sets run of
an engine-driven MG set and did exactly this; the spark gap was
connected to the generator shaft and AC resonant charging was used.

Ed