Re: Streamer loading effect

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Wells,

When the energy is gone - it's gone - the arc will quench. If you use the
proposed setup to pull the arc so
to speak, it would be interesting to see what happens, but whatever
happens, the energy is going to be
consumed and if your too far out, you may run into problems while trying to
get back to square 1. Also, at
increased inductance beyond what was optimum detuning, my coil had strong
hits to the ground rod, but the
coil ran erratic. It did not like being out of tune. You would not want to
leave it powered up in this
condition for very long.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Operation would go as follows: Turn the coil on, let the usual streamers
> form, then slowly add primary L. The streamers should lengthen, snaking
> outwards. This would continue until they would happen to go out, at which
>  point the system would be out of tune, and no new ones would form. The
> tuning would have to be reset, to start the process again. Adding power
> while the streamer grew couldn't hurt. Imagine growing a streamer straight
> up via breakout point, six to ten times the lenght of the secondary,
> before it collapsed and had to be started anew. Artful operators with
> one hand on the tuner and the other on the variac could break world's
> records...
>
> Alright, enough. Feel free to poke holes in theory, as it is just that
> at this point.
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> Cheers,
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> Wells
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