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The Van de Graaff Generator is an electrostatic generator capable of generating extremely high voltages up to around 20 million volts. Named after its inventor Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, who was a professor at MIT. The Van de Graaff Generator was developed around 1929 to 1931 to supply the high energies required for particle accelerators of that period. ...
The classic Van de Graaff Generator or VDG contains no power supply other than the power used for the drive motor. ...
In order to understand the operation of the VDG generator, we need to look at the process of induction charging. ...
****SAFETY****
Generally speaking, the VDG generator does not really pose much of a safety threat with the exception of the 240 volt a. ... Also, because the VDG generator is a d. ... The extremely high field strengths surrounding a VDG generator and the very high rates of change of voltage gradient during a discharge pulse, are sure death to sensitive electronic equipment.
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