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Hi everybody. I believe this is my first post here. I'd like to throw around a few ideas and see what you folks think. This is based out of my desire to find a simple way to make a common experimental setup for magnetically biased spark gaps or filled with materials such as electrets or piezoelectrics.
-Length of pyrex or quartz lab tubing, cut to size
-Ring magnet polarized through the axis mounted on a grommet that fits over the tube
-Electrodes in either side of tube
-Stoppers for electrode pass-through and outfitted with vacuum and gas inlet connections
All kinds of things can be changed and experimented with here. If I had the resources I'd cast relatively thin tubes with layered electret waxes and fine piezoelectric materials, heated and pressed. I've been thinking it would be an interesting test to apply a large zamboni pile, or a van de graff or other suitable static generator, connected to the leads of such a tube while melting then cooling the waxes. Someone mentioned the need to maximize voltage and minimize amperage which, if I'm not mistaken, is analogous to static d.c.
The goal of this line of reasoning is toward making strong 'super-electrets.'
The other is to use essentially the same apparatus to make spark gaps, triodes etc.
-Length of pyrex or quartz lab tubing, cut to size
-Ring magnet polarized through the axis mounted on a grommet that fits over the tube
-Electrodes in either side of tube
-Stoppers for electrode pass-through and outfitted with vacuum and gas inlet connections
All kinds of things can be changed and experimented with here. If I had the resources I'd cast relatively thin tubes with layered electret waxes and fine piezoelectric materials, heated and pressed. I've been thinking it would be an interesting test to apply a large zamboni pile, or a van de graff or other suitable static generator, connected to the leads of such a tube while melting then cooling the waxes. Someone mentioned the need to maximize voltage and minimize amperage which, if I'm not mistaken, is analogous to static d.c.
The goal of this line of reasoning is toward making strong 'super-electrets.'
The other is to use essentially the same apparatus to make spark gaps, triodes etc.