Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:57:07 -0500
From: Charles Brush <cfbrush@xxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

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>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:31:57 +0100
>From: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>
>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)
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>High Voltage list wrote:
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>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>No discussion about VDGs would be complete without a mention of the
>>>giant unit up at Boston's Museum Of Science.  It was originally built
>>>as a tandem unit 1931 for use as a particle accelerator.
>
>All,
>
>The original article, by Atta, Northrup and Van de Graaff can be
>downloaded from here:
>http://home5.inet.tele.dk/f-hammer/roundhill.pdf
>
>Cheers, Finn Hammer


Finn,

Interesting article, particularly all that stuff about voltage
control.  Thanks!

I've been doing some searching around online looking for possible VDG
parts.  While looking at conveyor systems on ebay this morning (in
the few minutes of calm while our 22 month old triplets were eating
breakfast!), it occurred to be that a ready made drive system for an
actively charged VDG could probably be scavenged from a belt sander.
One of the big floor standing models might be perfect...just chop it
up.  I might have to try this.  Thoughts?


Zap!

Charles Brush