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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: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:02:03 -0500
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From: Tony Lekas [SMTP:tony@lekas.org]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 8:44 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Rotary Gap Design
I would not want to design slip rings that could take the voltage and current
required!
Tony
Tesla List wrote:
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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
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> Andrew Chin wrote:
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> > 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.
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> You must have stat electrodes somewhere, unless the entire coil rotates.
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> -GL
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