In past experiments, Russ has shown that a 40,000 high voltage discharge does not produce piston movement. This is one reason that I distrust the workability of the J. Rohner system. Russ’s current design is the exactly thr B Rohner design. IMHO, the parameter that is causative is instantaneous power. Power delivered in a nanosecond is what causes a reaction in the piston. This design thinking will be tested in experimentation, the final judge of all truth. Cheers: Axil
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:34 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:21:55 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > > The reason why Russ is using so much spark power (500 joules ) is because > >he is following the system that Bob Rohner built which does NOT use > >pre-ionization. The new control circuit that Russ has invented will > >pre-ionize the spark channel with a low amperage high voltage spark of > >about 90, 000 volts from two auto ignition coils wired in series. This > >will switch in the high powered spark discharge from this capacitor bank > at > >about 350 volts. This is called “Triggering in a trigatron spark gap”. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigatron for the theory, see: > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1022%26context%3Delecengwilliams&ei=R_PIUN_YCOTD0AGMroDYBg&usg=AFQjCNEs1s7LOYnRaKBY4XIihziFcWZAEg&sig2=KhJ0T3Lkdd_I_ol5YZEcAw > > This is an innovation that Russ will test to reduce the power needed to > >ionize the penning gas mix. Papp used RF or spark voltage to regulate > the > >speed of the engine. Russ will use spark timing as is currently done in > gas > >engines. Cheers: Axil * * * * * * > > ..which clearly shows that Russ has no idea of the process involved. It's > precisely the high voltage that is mandatory. (The electrons need as much > kinetic energy as you can give them.) > More low energy electrons will not do the trick. Analogous to the > photoelectric > effect. > Energy put into creating low energy electrons is mostly wasted. What he > should > be using is a 20 kV capacitor bank, not 350 V. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
