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.