RE: Measuring Streamer characteristics

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Original poster: "McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com> 


I believe the model assumes the streamer is already connected to ground.
Therefore, a longer streamer will have a higher impedance than a shorter
one.

Dan


 >Terry (and others)
 >
 >Could you explain this further please? It never seemed right
 >to me. Richie Burnett and I have seen a lot of weird things in
 >our SSTC work, and the best explanation we can think of is: As
 >a streamer gets longer, its equivalent shunt resistance to
 >ground must go down, not up. So I don't see how a model that
 >says "X ohms per foot" can be correct.
 >
 >I'm trying to do some experiments similar to Terry's and see
 >what comes up
 >
 >http://scopeboy-dot-com/tesla/experiment/
 >
 >Steve C.
 >
 >
 >