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Title: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Jeff OGM on March 02, 2006, 05:52:43 PM Check out this pic...
http://aip.org/png/2006/250.htm This is what happens when you charge up a lot of capacitors, then switch them all into series to generate a 160 million watt discharge! (8 million volts at 20 million amps) The explanation for the pic is here... http://www.aip.org/pnu/2006/split/767-3.html Jeff KA1OGM Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WA1GFZ on March 02, 2006, 08:35:34 PM Sandia.....one of the coolest places on earth
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Bill, KD0HG on March 02, 2006, 09:42:13 PM Wouldn't that be a cool job?
Building the ultimate zorch machine on purpose. And getting paid for it. Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Gary - WA4IAM on March 03, 2006, 06:54:37 AM So cool! What a beautiful photograph!
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WD8BIL on March 03, 2006, 07:48:57 AM I want one !
Imagine the zorches I could put into Lake Erie ! Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WA1GFZ on March 03, 2006, 08:49:11 AM Bill,
You would be eating a lot of fish after that discharge.... Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: W2PFY on March 03, 2006, 08:50:08 AM This reminds me of my Westinghouse transmitter. When in operation I have a chicken wire fence in front of the transmitter to keep any arks safely routed to ground. X-rays have not proven to be a problem, but you can see the fence pattern on a nearby wall when the transmitter is off. I asked another expert in the field of loose electrons and he indicated to me that it was most likely a branding effect, whereas the chicken wire gets so hot that it’s image is transferred to the nearby wall.
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WB3JOK on March 03, 2006, 08:54:03 AM Better check your calculator...
8 million volts at 20 million amps is 160 terawatts (160,000,000,000,000 watts) :o Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Ed KB1HVS on March 03, 2006, 09:19:52 AM This reminds me of my Westinghouse transmitter. When in operation I have a chicken wire fence in front of the transmitter to keep any arks safely routed to ground. X-rays have not proven to be a problem, but you can see the fence pattern on a nearby wall when the transmitter is off. I asked another expert in the field of loose electrons and he indicated to me that it was most likely a branding effect, whereas the chicken wire gets so hot that it’s image is transferred to the nearby wall. (http://www.captainozone.com/4/big/super-computer.JPG) Captain Marvelous at the Westinghouse ???Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Vortex Joe - N3IBX on March 03, 2006, 09:29:02 AM I want to modulate those arcs. Anyone have a big "Bunsen Burner" to put in series with it?
Joe N3IBX Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WA1GFZ on March 03, 2006, 10:55:57 AM just pdm it with raw gas Joe
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Vortex Joe - N3IBX on March 03, 2006, 11:13:24 AM just pdm it with raw gas Joe No kiddin! In Robinson's 1918 "Manual of Radiotelephony" he goes into modulated Poulson arcs and wild stuff like modulating an alcohol burner, etc. Why not LPG? Joe N3IBX Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WA1GFZ on March 03, 2006, 11:34:51 AM I remember one time Tom Vu PDM modulated an arc across his feed line and made a cool echo through the woods as Tim and I watched under the antenna.
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: KB2WIG on March 03, 2006, 11:42:07 AM The US Navy (NRL) has worked w/ flame modulation in comms and weapon systems...... really .... klc
Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Bill, KD0HG on March 03, 2006, 01:54:29 PM And what about those occasional 'positive' lightning bolts?
Which have a potential of up to a gigavolt, a peak current of 300,000 amps and can last for hundreds of milliseconds. Those are the bolts that can leave a steel radio tower looking like a burnt match. They'll even generate bursts of gamma rays. Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Jeff OGM on March 03, 2006, 05:42:00 PM WB3JOK wrote... "Better check your calculator...
8 million volts at 20 million amps is 160 terawatts (160,000,000,000,000 watts)" It wasn't until after I posted that I realized how silly the mistake was. But, after all, it's just a thread title, so why bother going back to put in the additional six zeros? But you get the prize for picking up the mistake when no-one else did! Your prize is a month by the lake at the Pointdexter Math Camp in Cosine, Nude Hamster, complete with daily exercises in radio related mathematics, evening Pi calculation contests, and a free trip to the slide rule museum in Manchester! Jeff KA1OGM Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: Vortex Joe - N3IBX on March 03, 2006, 08:12:04 PM This reminds me of my Westinghouse transmitter. When in operation I have a chicken wire fence in front of the transmitter to keep any arks safely routed to ground. X-rays have not proven to be a problem, but you can see the fence pattern on a nearby wall when the transmitter is off. I asked another expert in the field of loose electrons and he indicated to me that it was most likely a branding effect, whereas the chicken wire gets so hot that it’s image is transferred to the nearby wall. Terry - That's some serious RF! Joe N3IBX Title: Re: 160,000,000 watts! Post by: WB3JOK on March 04, 2006, 07:31:57 PM But you get the prize for picking up the mistake when no-one else did! Your prize is a month by the lake at the Pointdexter Math Camp in Cosine, Nude Hamster, complete with daily exercises in radio related mathematics, evening Pi calculation contests, and a free trip to the slide rule museum in Manchester! Forget the Math Camp, I want to hear more about Nude Hamsters!!! :P |