As Bayley pointed out, QCW sparks from a DRSSTC or Tube coil make for
more impressive high speed footage. You can actually see the spark
grow throughout it's lifetime. Here's a video I posted a few years ago
that shows the sort of effect you can capture with only 1000FPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfH7p8C-a6g
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Bayley Wang <wang9xb17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You'd probably have more luck doing capture of a QCW DRSSTC; DRSSTC
> streamers are fairly boring in high speed (e.g. I took this video at
> 1000FPS and all you see is the spark flickering on and off
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddpTutF8KA)
> To get good shots of DRSSTC streamer growth probably requires 100,000+ FPS
> (so you'd get 10 frames in a 100uS bang).
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:27 PM, JJ Dasher <redrum0381@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Tesla coil discharges generally do not show well in slow motion. Here is
>> my coil @ 240 fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYn-4vQCtXs
>> The problem is that the output is not continuous.
>> 5000fps would just capture a streamer slowly appearing and disappearing.
>> Would be interesting to see though...
>>
>> If you could rig a camera somehow to sync the frame rate with the
>> primary's break rate, then maybe you can get a decent video.
>>
>>
>> -JJ
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 6:33 AM, Nigel Stanford <
>> nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I'm trying to put together a video shoot on the weekend of the 14/15th of
>> December.
>>
>> I'm looking to hire someone with a large coil that can be transported to
>> the New York area, preferably one that can be controlled on and off from a
>> computer with accurate timing. A faraday suit would also be useful.
>>
>> We are wanting to shoot the coil with a high speed camera, at 5,000 frames
>> per second. This has never been done to my knowledge, and should look
>> pretty cool!
>>
>> If anyone can help out, please get back to me.
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Nigel John Stanford
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