Re: BL saga

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Subject: Re: BL saga
From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:43:03 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

> Original Poster: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> 
> Hi all,
>           I stuck some charred wood on top of my work coil last
> evening and fired her up. Some bright spots did appear in the
> streamers but you really had to look for them. It would be a bold
> soul that could claim this was ball lightning. They appeared to be
> burining particles of carbon ejected from the charcoal, probably by
> the electric fields. The spots were formed in air streamers and I
> suspect that the considerably brighter attached discharges would all
> but mask the effect. They were not at all long lived and appeared
> only in the streamers.

Did the bright spots seem electrical or incendiary in appearance?

One fun thing to do is to place a large pyrotechnic charge on the
toroid, such as a fountain with copper salts in it. It is usually
unnecessary to light the fuse.
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-GL
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