Saturday, April 08, 2006

300 Volts, 1000 Amps

This are the meters on the power supply of our big spectrometer magnet. It's a fridge magnet, you can put refrigerators on it easily.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the explanation! I always wondered about these 'fridge fields' of the magnet.

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  2. Yes, that's the field that makes things go cold. You need it for superconducting magnets, for example.

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