From: Paul
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:46:22 +0100
Subject: Re: [TSSP] 50,000V fun
Terry wrote: > put the largest and smallest spheres on to the ends > of a 1 foot long all thread rod For this arrangement, modeling predicts the rod will reach corona onset before the sphere, at around 25kV if a long way from anything, lower as the rod/sphere is brought down near the earth. Got a small toroid to go around the base of the rod? It would then be a case of finding a rod length such that the sphere sticks out from the toroid field sufficient to have a corona onset less than 50kV, but not so far that the rod itself produces corona first. -- Paul Nicholson, --
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.