Re: Strange Spark Behavior

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• Subject: Re: Strange Spark Behavior
• From: "Megavolt Nick" <tesla-at-fieldfamily.prontoserve.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:26:49 -0700
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Hi All,
         take a look at the 13M page on Bill Wysock's site - you can clearly
see this effect from the topload. Quite definitely running outside :-)
> and little or no air turbulence as far as I can tell. I've never
> seen this when running outdoors.
Regards
Nick Field

> > Original Poster: "Gregory R. Hunter" <ghunter-at-accucomm-dot-net>
> >
> <snip>
> > I popped off my 3" x 14" toroid and put the sphere in it's place on my
4"
> x
> > 24" 1KW coil.  After retuning, I got 1 to 3 branching sparks up to maybe
> 24
> > inches long--about the same as the toroid.  However, after 20 seconds or
> so
> > something bizarre happened.  The frantic, multi-branched sparks all
> slowly
> > coalesced into a single, un-branched, fat, fuzzy, tendril reaching
> straight
> > upward.  It grew slowly toward the ceiling while waving gently, like a
> > cobra under the spell of a snake charmer.  This was a bit alarming, as I
> > only have an 8' foot ceiling with some electrical wiring up there.
After
> a
> > few seconds, the long, glowing tendril collapsed back into chaotic,
> > multi-branched sparks again.  I was treated to a repeat performance of
> the
> > "light serpent" effect of a few seconds duration every 30 seconds or so.
> >
>
>
>

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