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Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
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> > Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
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> >From harris-at-parkave-dot-net Tue Dec 10 21:50:42 1996
> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:55:24 -0400
> From: Ed Harris <harris-at-parkave-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
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> > From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com Mon Dec 9 20:19:26 1996
> > Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 01:34:11 -0800
> > From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
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> > I feel that rectification is not at work here! The DC components from
> > Tesla systems have been recorded by us out to 20-50 feet from the corona
> > limit with a 20 watt system. No corona discharge effects of a rectifying
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> > nature out here.
> >
> > Richad Hull, TCBOR
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> I must've missed your earlier posts, etc...
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> I don't understand why you discount rectification. If you get something
> DC from something AC, I'd say (almost by definition) that you've got
> rectification no matter how small it might be. If there are a suprplus
> of negative ions being generated due to "rectification" near the tesla
> coil terminal, then they will repel each other and be flung far away from
> the discharge terminal, no?
>
> -Ed Harris
I answered this in another post. If the criteria is AC to DC, yes, a
form is taking place, but not along the normal lines which we consider
rectification. (electron emission, semicondive,etc.) It is more a
special case of ionic transfer of energy. If little or no energy is
required, it could be a more subtle effect than bulk ionic transfer and
occuring at a lot higher velocities than ion migration would allow.
(Again, more research needed before definitive statements can be made.)
Richard Hull, TCBOR