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Just got this advert from CRC Press in the mail this morning.. "Gaseous Electronics!" Wow! High voltage and RF discharges seem to be covered. I'm sure it has lots of equations...
If anyone else has some useful references that might be of specific interest to the HV Community, why not post them here?
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Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:27PM
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Another good book on gaseous electronics is: Gaseous Electronics, Volume 1 - Electrical Discharges, Hirsh, Oskam, 1978, 506 pages.
While most of the following titles cover the more technical side of high voltage, they are great resources if you can get your hands on them. A number of them are now rare and pricey, but as an engineer, I have found them to be quite useful.
High Voltage: High Voltage Test Techniques (2nd revised ed.), Kind, Feser, 2001, 308 pages. Electrical Breakdown of Gases, Meek, Craggs, 1953, 507 pages. High Voltage Laboratory Technique, Craggs, Meek, 1954, 404 pages. High Voltage Engineering (2nd ed., 10th reprint), Naidu, Kamaraju, 1995, 372 pages.
Pulsed Power: J.C. Martin on Pulsed Power - Advances in Pulsed Power Technology, Volume 3, Martin, Guenther, Kristiansen, 1996, 546 pages. High Power Electronics, Sarjeant, Dollinger, 1989, 392 pages. High Speed Pulse Technology Vol. 3: Capacitor Discharge Engineering, Frungel, 1976, 498 pages. High Speed Pulse Technology Vol. 1: Capacitor Discharges, magnetohydrodynamics, x-rays, ultrasonics, Frungel, 1965, 620 pages. Gas Discharge Closing Switches - Advances in Pulsed Power Technology, Volume 2, Schaefer, Kristiansen, Guenther, 1990, 569 pages. Pulse Generators - MIT Radiation Laboratory Series, Glasoe, Lebacqz, 1948, 741 pages.
Electrostatics: Electrostatics - Exploring, Controlling, and Using Static Electricity (Includes The Dirod Manual), Moore, 1997 243 pages. (basic construction projects and experiments) Homemade Lightning - Creative Experiments in Electricity, Ford, 2002, 257 pages. (basic construction projects and experiments)
Lightning: The Lightning Discharge, Uman, 2001, 377 pages. (good starter book on lightning) Lightning Electromagnetics, Gardner, 1990, 540 pages. (very technical)
Power Vacuum Tubes: Power Vacuum Tubes Handbook, Whitaker, 1999, 710 pages.
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"Neon Techniques" by Wayne Strattman will tell you everything you want to know about making neon lamps. It's also a good reference for glassblowing/bending and breakdown of gases at certain pressures.
One of the coolest sets of books I've ever seen is the "Encyclopedia of Science and Technology" by McGraw Hill. I've never seen anything like them, my dad got them from his high school book sale I think. It has TONS of information in 15 volumes. If you can get your hands on them, get them. Mechanical stuff, three different formulas for napalm, engines, genetic engineering, antennas, mathematical formulae... it's awesome.
"Ingenious Mechanisms" is another really cool set of books. It has hundreds of mechanical setups designed to do different things like reversing gears, infinite variable speed drives, clock mechanisms, all mechanical stuff.
If you want cool books, then sign up for Lindsay publications. They go back and select titles now unavaliable and out of print and reprint them. They have some really neat stuff. Just looking at the catalog is interesting.
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