Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:32:29 -0200
From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <acmq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

High Voltage list wrote:

> From: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>

> Running a VDG in a pressurized tank with exotic gasses may be tempting
> as a thought experiment, the voltages obtainable would provide great
> boasting value, but frankly seems rather boring in real life.
> We want direct access to the discharge, don`t we?.

Something that looks perfectly possible but that I have never seen
done is to make the tank out of insulating material and put the
terminal outside the tank, with only the belt inside it. This
would allow a high charging current, but the terminal would
remain exposed.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz