Re: PSSC Equipment Info Request

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Hej!

Can't say with out seeing it, but I'd certainly like to buy it from you.

I suspect that the primary took 6 V.  One can check which leads are which with an ohm
meter. The primary should be a few ohms, or less. Is the interrupter exposed, so you can
check continuity to it, and break the continuity in the primary by pushing the moving
contact away from its mate?  The secondary I'd expect to have a few hundred to a few
thousand ohms. All the same as an auto spk. coil. I think it's approx. 50 KV / inch
spark  which it should do.  Was it intended to power geissler tubes?  With the
interrupter, I assume it wasn't to mark waxed tape for timing mechanics experiments.


bc


"Raymond A. Rogoway" wrote:

> Digging thru my old equipment I found a High Voltage Source Kit from the
> old PSSC lab equipment. It was manufactured by Macalaster Bicknell and
> carries the Catalog number of 1300.
>
> It is basically a spark coil with an interupter to pulse the low voltage
> primary. It has two red leads, one with a larger diameter than the other
> and two black lead, also with one larger diameter than the other.
>
> The smaller diameter leads appear to be the primary and the larger the
> HV secondary.
>
> Does anyone have the specs on this device (input voltage, output
> voltage, input current, output current) and am I correct in my
> assumptions of which wires are which?
>
> (Herb, this ought to be right down your line)
>
> Reply off list to rogoway@sjm.infi.net.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ray Rogoway
>
> --
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> And I have no more papers in a heap
> And in the morning I can sleep
> And stroll in those woods so dark and deep.
>     r. frosted