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Article #21587Re: HV Cap Fun!
From: Joseph T. Warden
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 00:50
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1989 00:50
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In article <575@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> oconnor@nuke (Dennis M. O'Connor) writes: >With a high resistance connection and zero inductance, the losses >would be in to resistive heating. > >Try shorting a big capacitor while someone in an adjacent, >sonically-isolated area listens to an AM radio low in >the band : you should be able to here the EM energy ! > >-- > Dennis O'Connor oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP ARPA: OCONNORDM@CRD.GE.COM For anyone with experience with rf generating equipment (ie. Q-switched Nd-YAG lasers), your suggestion is one of the tricks for determining paths of rf transmission - we use a portable FM radio with a directional antenna. Joseph Warden Department of Chemistry Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY jtwarden@pawl.rpi.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!rpi!pawl24.pawl.rpi.edu!jtwarden From: jtwarden@pawl.rpi.edu (Joseph T. Warden) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun! Message-ID: <5239@rpi.edu> Date: 2 Jun 89 00:50:36 GMT References: <4924@m2c.M2C.ORG> <3806@mit-amt> <20772@quacky.mips.COM> <166@mother.dde.uucp> <575@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 22 Summary: Detection of rf in the "real world"