Re: Electrometer design? (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:04:13 -0600 (MDT)
From: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Electrometer design? (fwd)



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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:15:19 -0300
From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Electrometer design? (fwd)

High Voltage list wrote:
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> From: Malcolm Watts <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I thought about removing wedges of copper from ordinary Cu-fibreglass
> laminate to make the disks (which leaves the disks in one piece).
> Anyone see anything wrong with that plan?

The insulating plates may hold some charge and create false
measurements.
Better to use a rotor entirely made of metal.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz