Re: Equipping a HV lab (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:14:32 -0600
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Equipping a HV lab (fwd)

High Voltage list wrote:
> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:57:43 -0800
> From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Equipping a HV lab
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> So here's an interesting one..
> 
> If you had to equip a HV development lab (for designing, building HV 
> power supplies, connectors, etc.) up to around 50kV, what sort of 
> test equipment and supplies would be useful.  There's obvious things 
> like HV scope probes, compensated voltage dividers, current probes, 
> Rogowski coils, adjustable power supplies, etc.
> 
> isolation transformers so you can float test gear
> 
> What about stuff that's handy for assembling stuff.. toroids of 
> various sizes, corona balls, and the like?
> What about cabling?  tooling to assemble cables with HV wire?
> 
> We're not talking about lots of stored energy in any of the systems 
> (so we don't need the 100 kJ/second charging supplies or the big 
> energy dump resistors)
> 
> 
> But what about weird or unexpected stuff.  Something that when you 
> see it you go, gosh, that would be really, really handy.
> 
> Price is no object.
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Lux
> 
> 

Hi Jim,

Sounds like a fun project if price is no object... :^)

One interesting toy would be a corona camera:
http://www.specialcamera.com/uvcam/cameras.html
http://www.corona-technology-course.com/

Bert
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