Re: candle?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

For these candle on a TC experiments, the soot in the flame is kind of the 
interesting part (electrically).  Cotton balls with vaseline or oil make a 
nice sooty flame.  those of you with bigger coils could always go the 
"burning tire with diesel fuel" approach...
(Don't try this in the Los Angeles area.. the AQMD will be on your case 
real fast)

At 07:45 AM 12/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>
>
>At 22:30 05/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>Original poster: "J Dow by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
>><jdowphotography-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>>
>>Has anyone ever tried sticking a candle on top of the toroid?
>>Might be a fun experiment.
>>
>>Josh
>
>Funny you should say that, I tried it about 2 days ago. It was a bit of a 
>disappointment but maybe if I'd used a more powerful TC/taller candle it 
>would have done something more spectacular. Here is a picture of what happened:
>
>http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cnbp111/candlezap.jpg
>
>Steve C.
>
>