RE: 'true" spark length was Re: Desktop Bipolar Coil

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

At 05:22 AM 7/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "boris petkovic by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <petkovic7-at-yahoo-dot-com>
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> > there is also a breakrate dependency due to hot air
> > channel latency.
> > I have done such expts and that is exactly what I
> > found. In the case
> > of one coil, changing the breakrate from less than
> > 1BPS to somewhere
> > around 2 - 3 BPS nearly doubled the coil's reach to
> > a grounded rod.
>---
>I guess cumulative charge debris effects in 2 BPS
>range are more probable for prolonging subsequent
>sparks than hot air channel latency.
>---
>
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> > That particular case had a rather low L/C ratio in
> > the secondary
> > system or, to put it another way, a rather low
> > output voltage/energy
> > storage ratio in the secondary. I dare say the
> > result was also
> > dependent to a degree on the humidity content of the
> > air at the time
>---
>Well again,humidity is known to have noticable
>influence to free atmospheric charge in air phenomena.


Really?  Particulates, yes. Surface condensation or resistivity changes, 
yes. Very small changes in breakdown field for the gas, yes.

However, for bulk charge effects?  What's the physics mechanism?


>regards,
>Boris