Re: TC for VDG injection

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

I got quite a lot of vandegraph information
from,www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/electrostatic.html
and the links from therehttp://home.attbi-dot-com/~kr4495/vdgg/vdgg.html
http://members.aol-dot-com/ ht a/lyonelb/index.html?mtbrand=AOL US
us patten office1,931,236
www.datasync-dot-com/~ignatz/electro/vandergraaff/vdg.htm
www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/myvdg.html
www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/t18662.jpg
      I hope this helps    Robert  H

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> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:25:41 -0600
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> Subject: Re: TC for VDG injection
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> Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:32:46 -0600
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> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <davep-at-quik-dot-com>
> 
>> I dont want to aggravate anyone by presenting a subject
> 
>> that is to far offtopic, but next on my list of mad
> 
>> scientist devices is building a Vandegraf generator
>> I am wondering if anyone has recently found any good info
> 
>> on the net about van de Graff construction.
> 
>> Especially injection type VDG devices...
> 
>> I think you can build 2 types of Vandegraf machines
>> 1 is a belt / pulley driven system with specific rollers for
> 
>> generating a charge and the other is an injection system.
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>> I know very little of this type.
> 
> Same as the first, save that the lower brush is
> driven from a DC supply, to allow faster build up,
> higher currents.
> 
>> I am curious know if tesla coils are used as the electron
> 
>> injection device onto the van de Graff belt sytem?
> 
> Could be but:
> Injection source needs to be DC.  Tesla coils are
> mostly AC.
> 
> Also:
> 15KV or so is plenty for the injector, mostly.
> Using a TC system for this would be MASSIVE over
> complication.  (eg: CRT supply, laser toner
> ion spray supply, etc, would be apropos.)
> 
> (Olde Phart Story:
> Buddy of mine in HS hotwired The School TV Set
> video B+ to the HS van De Graaff attempting to
> do this.  Sort of worked....)
> 
> 
>> The information I have read kind of hinted at this but
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>> went on to say that you didn't want to mess with this
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>> dangerous stuff...
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> Takes some care.  van de Graaf currents go up with
> such a rig....
> 
> 
> best
> dwp
> 
> ...the net of a million lies...
> Vernor Vinge
> There are Many Web Sites which Say Many Things.
> -me
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