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From: Bert Hickman
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:03:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Some Considerations

Malcolm and all,

Seems that I recall Greg Leyh using this exact technique with a chain of
vacuum (or ceramic?) capacitors down the center of one of his systems...
I'll ask him about this.

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
Email:    bert.hickman@aquila.net
Web Site: http://www.teslamania.com

Malcolm Watts wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> > i've been pondering an idea for voltage measurments without disturbing
> > the field. how does a poly tube filled with salt water or a conducting
> > fluid and graphite plugs in the ends sound?
> > being non-matalic it should keep disturbances to a minimum alowing
> > remote voltage reading?
> > any opinions on this.
> > marc
> 
> It's still a conductor though. Should there be any difference in this
> respect between saltwater and a string of carbon? As I see it, the
> major objection to any probe that has to reference the top of the
> coil to ground is that it occupies physical space and modifies the
> permittivity and/or permeability of the medium it lives in. I think I
> will perform a cursory examination of the effects of a probe running
> through the centre of a resonator of a reasonably large diameter. It
> is not for nothing that an authoritative technique appears not to
> exist.
> 
> Regards,
> Malcolm



Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.