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On 7/11/18 8:30 AM, Terry Oxandale wrote:
Was this designed this way to provide a rotating spark (spark visualized as rotating about the circumference spark gap circle)?
Terry
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Thanks also for all the responses.
I have read the Popular Mechanic's article. In addition, there is a very good front view photo of the rotary switch in Harry Goldman's book, " Dr.
Frankenstein's Electrician", on page #114.
What puzzles me is the large outer ring is metal with seven 2 1/2" long electrodes protruding radially from the inside of this ring. The five flying electrodes appear to be small diameter metal rods braced by a 12"
dia. metal ring. How does switching occur with this arrangement? I am probably missing the obvious.
could the bracing ring be insulated? or have gaps. Then you'd have 5
electrodes against 7 other electrodes, which would give you a lot of
sparks per rev (35?) since there's no common factor of 5 and 7.
It might also produce a visually interesting position of the spark (it
would probably appear to rotate around the circle, at a rate higher than
the rotation rate of the inner wheel).
I'm a bit lazy, but I think you could write a short program in matlab or
python to work out which gap fires when. (or even in excel).
This could be a case where: there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
Either way, I would really like to build this rotary switch. I do not intend to use it for a TC, just a stand-alone device.
Thank you and feel free to email me off list.
Tim
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Matthew Sweeney <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
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