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Hi Ben, Those are some good ideas. Doing some experiments in this area is on my (very long!) "To Do" List...:^) The Trigatron is presently operated at atmospheric pressure, It might be possible to flood the trigatron with a strongly electronegative gas under pressure such as SF6. Another option might be to include an exploding wire fuse in series with the work coil, perhaps immersing the exploding wire a strong transverse magnetic field to aid in blowout. Developing repeatable "opening" switches is notoriously more difficult than designing closing switches. Good luck and best regards, -- Bert --
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: Why don't you use a flux concentrator to shrink quarters? It would seem to
: me
: that it would save you from a disintegrating work coil each time, and you
: wouldn't get the effects such disintegration causes.
: Is there some reason why not?
: : : That's an excellent question, and a rather uncommon one. Are you in the
: field of electromagnetics or particle physics?
: Not really, it's mostly a hobby but I eventually would like to go back and
: get my phd in physics, not sure in what area yet though.
: I wonder if you could make the gap smaller using some high dielectric
: material in the gap to prevent arcing. Or if "spiraling" the gap
: would wash out some of the asymetry of the field. Another option might be
: to have a second "secondary" of copper pipe. Keeping that from
: being "disposable" might be tough as well as the extra losses
: incurred.
: For the ringing, could you quench your trigatron using some electronics to
: detect the voltage crossing zero and a solenoid to allow atmospheric
: pressure in? Especially if the inlet air was directed at the main gap.
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