On Jun 5, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Michel Jullian wrote:
If I understand correctly what you want to do it wouldn't work
Horace, the signal would be transmitted instantly regardless of the
carrier velocity. Think of the gap as a capacitor, any current
entering one armature leaves simultaneously the other armature,
independently of any "real" current between the armatures.
Sorry about the mix-up! I see you are talking about the "thruster".
In an effort for clarity I tried a while back to change the thread
name for Bill Beaty's filament ion jets topic to "Filament ion jets"
as opposed to "ion currents in pingpong balls" or "Miklos Borbas
Thruster??" which are about the Miklos Borbas Thruster.
The following post is 100 percent about Bill Beaty's filament ion jet
topic, so I should have changed the thread name to make that clear.
This is not about armatures at all.
I think there is a huge difference in the electrical qualities of a
long resistive filament and a 6" air gap, and that would show up in
its ability to transmit a signal. It should be easy to distingish
between when a filament is present or not, as the AC signal onset
will be abrupt, either on or off.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Horace Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:ion currents in pingpong balls
A definitive test for thread vs drops would be the ability to
instantly transmit an AC signal or fast pulse chain along the
thread. You have already determined the thread velocity to be 5 to
10 MPH. It would take a couple isolation transformers T1 and T2, one
with primary in series with each electrode, each primary and
secondary coil possibly made from a few turns of 20 KV test lead
wrapped around a small ferrite core, an oscilloscope on the secondary
of T2, and a sparker circuit consisting of a HV DC supply and maybe
very small HV cap to discharge through T1 secondary of the isolation
transformer coils. Might take some filter inductors F1 and F2 to
prevent the signal from leaking through the power supply.
------HV----------
| |
| |
F1 F2
| |
| |---Ground
| |
T1===Sparker T2===Oscilloscope
| |
| |
------> |--------
Filament Gap
Fig. 1 - Jet spark circuit
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Regards,
Horace Heffner
