Talk:Bitter electromagnet
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[edit] Revision as of 2 April 2006
I've overhauled and somewhat expanded this article (started writing Bitter solenoid, then found this page in Category:Magnets). I've removed the following claim as suspicious:
The National High Magnetic Field laboratory at Florida State University does experiments with one that apparently uses 10% of the city of Tallahassee's electrical power output when it is on.
I can believe that the power draw of the magnet is an amount comparable to 10% of the city's average power draw, but it would be supplied by a flywheel or similar power storage mechanism, not from the city's grid. --most likely; for example "Z releases 80 times the world's electrical power output for a few billionths of a second" (from Z Machine). It just needs rewording. Zebediah49 03:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
I've also updated the maximum field strength (HFML claims 60 Tesla in pulsed mode).
I'll make a diagram image for this page eventually if nobody else does. --Christopher Thomas 06:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A picture?
Can anyone find a picture of what one of these actually looks like? --A diagram would be good; a picture of a real one, with scale would be good also. Zebediah49 03:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)