Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil

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Original poster: "Daniel Costantino" <rocketry1991@xxxxxxxxx>

I was thinking you could ionize the air with an ion gun (they do 
exist and not the ones in starwars) and provide a path of least 
resistance for the lightning to follow but it isn't really focused.

On 2/18/07, Daniel Costantino 
<<mailto:rocketry1991@xxxxxxxxx>rocketry1991@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I remember this and it was trailing a wire.

it was on discovery or something awhile ago


On 2/17/07, Tesla list <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: Ed Phillips <<mailto:evp@xxxxxxxxxxx> evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

Since we are on this half way "on" half way "off" topic,  I remember
a TV show on lightning where they were measuring the field strenght
at a test site and at the proper time would launch a rocket.  The
rocket's exhaust would create a trail of conductive gasses that would
trigger a lightning strike at the test site.

So.....    Has anyone tried to put a bottle rocket on top of the
toroid to see what would happen.

Gerry R."

    Are you sure that rocket wasn't trailing a wire?  That's a
standard technique in lightning research.

Ed