Re: [Fwd: Magnetic Field in a Flat Spiral]

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> 
> I have a book of Tesla's inventions, forget the name, but it shows
> some magnetically quenched gaps that use the current through the
> gap itself to generate the magnetic field.
> 
> Steve Greenfield

	That would work with a CW gap, but not at all practical with a
disruptive arrangement.  It takes a lot of ampere turns to produce the
necessary TRANSVERSE field, and the inductance of any practical
electromagnet would prohibit its use in this application.

Ed