Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:54:13 -0600
From: Dr. Resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)


After testing hundreds of belt materials we arrived on a proprietary
material based on Teflon.

For long life you can't beat leather.

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corporation
E11870 Shadylane Rd.
Baraboo   WI   53913
>
> Just to digress for a moment back to regular VDG belts, here is a
> company that supplies belts for transport systems in factories and
> such.  Materials available include things like PVC, polyester,
> nitrile, urethane, monofilament, teflon, mylar, novitane, and they
> also have transmission belts in leather, nylon, plied rubber,
> oriented nylon.  What is best material for a standard pumped VDG
> belt?  I imagine you could make quite a substantial VDG with a big
> food transport conveyor belt  as the charge carrier:
>
> http://www.akronbelting.com/public/belting.cfm
>
> On a somewhat related note....you gotta love ebay!  I just bought my
> second field mill from a UK company.  It's another portable unit with
> ranges from 1kV/m to 1000kV/m and includes a chart recorder output
> which will be great (I have a handy A/D box and some charting
> software that I have been using with an electrometer to observe storm
> related field changes).  I can't wait for it to arrive later this
> week.
>
> Zap!
>
> Charles Brush
>
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>