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Re: 100 meter sparks (picture of GE machines!)
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@poodle.pupman.com>
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Subject: Re: 100 meter sparks (picture of GE machines!)
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:17:05 -0600
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From: Mike Harrison[SMTP:wwl@netcomuk.co.uk]
Reply To: wwl@netcomuk.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 1997 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: 100 meter sparks (picture of GE machines!)
>> Wow, cool pics!! Looks like a Colcroft-Walton arrangement, but... what
>> would
>> they have used for rectifiers? Cold cathode tubes?
Probably a Marx generator, which uses spark gaps instead of diodes for
switching. There was an article on these in Electronics & Wireless
World a few years ago.