need someone to build a test unit

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Sorry, you're too late. This was done by Millikan in 1909, ninety-seven years ago, and he's already collected his Nobel Prize for doing it.

An three-foot-long antenna isnt the way to go either-- several billion billion quanta are going to leave it every second just due to thermal noise.

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Good Luck! Rich

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Sounds like you\'re trying to build a relaxation oscillator where you
charge up the wire from a constant-current source until it "sparks"
into space, at which point the lost charge will be eventually
replaced with enough charge to cause the cycle to repeat.  is that
what you want?
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John Fields

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Sounds like you\'re trying to build a relaxation oscillator where you
charge up the wire from a constant-current source until it "sparks"
into space, at which point the lost charge will be eventually
replaced with enough charge to cause the cycle to repeat.  is that
what you want?
Reply to
John Fields

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