Re: Electric Waterfall

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

As far as I know, Reinhart made the first "working" MMC out of modern 
poly/foil caps.  Many others had strung lesser caps before with various 
results.

The many people that invented the modern poly/foil/film cap technology 
really did all the work ;-))

Although I thought of MMCs too independently, Reinhard beat me to it and I 
have never forgiven him for that :o)))  I worked out many of the details 
and did a lot of testing.  Also did a lot of cheer leading back when folks 
thought it would not work :-D

I had nothing to do with SSTC's such as FET/IGBT H-bridge machines.  I did 
do much work on the solid state spark gap (SSgap) that still eludes 
us...  I did have the original idea (I think) for the OLTC and made the 
first one.  But I certainly needed the help of a bunch of people on the 
list to make it work!!!  Looks like Steve is taking that far further now!

Cheers,

         Terry


At 03:30 AM 5/16/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>>hi scot,
>
>I think most of the credit for the mmc should go to rheinhard with terry 
>testing to destrution ;-) dont know if rheinhard is still on the list or 
>not. hi if you are.
>
>cheers
>bob
>
>
>>the MMC ( confused here as to really started this one ... was it Terry or 
>>someone else?? )
>>the SSTC  ( Terry's hard work and a multitude of others)
>>the RQ SG  ( a standard known gap)
>>the SD linear SG  ( accepted but not overwhelmingly used  but it was a 
>>novel idea)
>>
>>
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