[NewCandle] Schlicher 'drive'

[Nick Reiter]

Hi Kyle,

First of all, my belated condolences on John's
passing.  I had no idea.  I guess I confess I had not
kept close tabs on Vo or other lists for quite some
time.  If it was mentioned here, I apologize that it
must have slipped past me.

Driving shaped pulses at kilo-amps sounds like a job
for a capacitive discharge with either an adjustable
spark gap or a hydrogen thyratron trigger.  Thats
about all I can conceive of as being able to do that! 
Something that might work as a can-crusher or wire
exploder could work here, although the rep rate or
"frequency" would be mighty slow.  I'd opt for the
spark gap myself.

Any and all pics are appreciated - please post a link
here.  If you have kept a website of your own, I may
have seen it wayyy back in Vortex times, but thats
been a while.

Best,

nr


> 
> Alright, this might be a bit lengthy, so I apologize
> in advance for 
> that. I'll try to answer the questions that Nick
> posed, and explain a 
> bit more of what (little) I know about the monster
> in the attic. 
> (well...one of my many monsters)
> 
> First off, the patent on USPTO is (if I remember
> right) corrupt. There's 
> a couple pages that are duplicated, and a couple not
> included at all. 
> The whole thing can be obtained from Google patents,
> with the originally 
> left-out pages there. I don't know if Schlicher's
> theory is correct or 
> not. I'm not very theoretically minded, I just tend
> to want to apply 
> current and let the thing do its business. Anyone
> here able to comment 
> on that?
> 
> I DO have a copy of Schlicher's paper submitted to
> the AIAA. I don't 
> know exactly how legal it is for me to post it, as I
> did pay for it. But 
> if there's a request to just...you know...peek at
> it...
> 
> I know about the Stavros Dmitriou thing. I don't
> know if the effect is 
> related. It might be. Stavros' thing was much lower
> current, and much 
> higher frequency, if I recall right. Schlicher's
> thing uses kA's of 
> current, at some cycles per second. Exactly WHAT
> cycles per second, I 
> don't know. Comments on that to follow below...
> 
> As far as John Schnurer loaning me the driver,
> that's impossible. 
> Unfortunately, he died last May. He had a long, hard
> fight with 
> Parkinsons, and apparently was overdosed with
> medication. It reacted 
> badly, and he (as far as anyone will tell me) had a
> massive heart 
> attack. His posting style on Vortex reflects the
> progression of the 
> disease. I knew him since 1998. He was a very good
> friend, and taught me 
> many things. He even mailed me the Schlicher antenna
> that I have.
> 


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