Re: Sparklength inquiry

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Subject: Re: Sparklength inquiry
From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:39:04 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

> Original Poster: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>

[snip]
> > There's this one particular plant (called a 'flux' plant?!)
> > that seems to attract strikes, when the wind is right.
> 
> Flax actually. Long spiky leaves?

Yes, that's it. (must be the accent or something)  8^)

> > My two coils land pretty close to the square-law curve
> > that is defined by your two coils.
> > And Ed's halfwave coil lands fairly close as well, beating
> > the revised curve by about 20%.  But a halfwave coil should
> > be more efficient at producing spark length -- since the spark
> > channel is supported at both ends, the ends of the spark need
> > be only as thick as the base of a single spark half its size.
> 
> And also a higher voltage between the terminals (by about SQRT2) due
> to energy sharing. I got the same sort of result for my minicoil twin.

What is the 'energy sharing' effect?
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