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Re: Beading caught on film.

Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Terry,
Well, on your example, the Bright spot is on one of the two forks of the streamer. That would mean the voltage divided across that path. If you look at the model plane shot, you see a high power Strike in progress elsewhere on the plane. This would have shunted energy away from the beading along it's length streamer. Either that or this one is just starting and the larger strike is about to loose it. Sort of the chicken or the egg thing.
I would tend to think beading could happen at either end of the cycle.
I compare this to exploding wire 1000 to 10,000 FPS footage, you sort of see the same after the wire blasts away and the air is ionized, little nodes before the full arc kicks in.
Interesting picture though.
Mike

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Beading caught on film.


Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Mike,

I may have seen one little bead shown here:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/bead.JPG

It is at the very end of the streamer. I thought it might just be some tiny flying bug that bought the big one, or a flake of dust burning up.

It was a pretty hot arc that the camera sort of missed. But the little bright spot sure seems odd. I pulled the high res original and this is what it looks like as close as the pixels allow:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/bead-01.JPG

But I don't seem to see them much with the eye. I wonder if it is some long time frame effect???

Don't know what it is...

Cheers,

        Terry


At 06:38 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote: 
Hi All,
           Going through the pictures, this one
is a photo made off one of the 16 mm frames, caught a discharge
in the beading mode. Another strike hits plane elswhere but the
beading is of more interest, see topof picture.
www.hot-streamer.com/mike2004/Beading3.jpg

Mike (Re-Posting this, prior sent 2:46 AM Eastern, May 3, 2005, never made it)