Talk:Bitter electromagnet

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.Christopher Thomas 06:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC) continues below!

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)

According to: Amy Mast (September 2009) Small Steps, Big Results: Greening the Magnet Lab Flux, Volume 2, Issue 2. Under the 'Small steps, electrifying results' section the figure is 7%.

"The overall power bill at the Tallahassee facility generally runs around $570,000 per month – about 7 percent of Tallahassee's total power capacity"

--220 of ^Borg 10:06, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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)

• Amen to that! --Treekids (talk) 18:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
• Here is a picture of Bitter S. http://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation/diamagnetic/bitter_solenoid/ --Nevit (talk) 08:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Highest Field Possible

It seems that highest fileld possible needs more definition.

Bitter electromagnets can be made of either conductive metals or High Temperature superconductors(HTS). This article from 2006 defines making of Bitter Solenoid Magnet up to 50 Tesla with HTS, which much higher than that pointed in article.

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/e06/PAPERS/WEPLS108.PDF

--Nevit (talk) 08:30, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

OK - this needs a lot of updating! First of all, the strongest field created by Man kind is in the Z-Machine, which hits 1000's of Tesla - but it is unrecorded - since 2007. Secondly, the strongest recorded field was in 2018 at the University of Toyoko in 1200 Tesla. Third, Los Alamos and the NHMFL recorded a 100.75 Tesla field using a pulse of current. Finally, the record fell in Sept. 2025 again after US and China went back and forth. ~2026-25948-68 (talk) 16:34, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

What power supply ?

Did they always use flywheel-generators ? What voltage and current ? What power output ? - Rod57 (talk) 13:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Illustration would be nice

this article could really use a diagram showing the arrangement of plates, spacers, cooling pipework and current cabling. I am having trouble mentally picturing how it all fits together. 119.224.84.121 (talk) 05:09, 11 August 2025 (UTC)