Re: theory(?) for long sparks

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• Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 07:27:13 -0600
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From: 	Edward V. Phillips[SMTP:ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: 	Wednesday, December 03, 1997 1:36 PM
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Subject: 	Re: theory(?) for long sparks

"That truly amazing 100+ meter spark in Bazelyan was produced by a
relatively low 5MV but with a rise time in the hundreds of microseconds and
a fall time in the tens of milliseconds."
	Is there any verification that that report is true?
By the way, someone published some stuff here a while back about
initiating the spark by discharging a capacitor bank into a
very fine wire, which vaporized and formed a conducting channel
along which current flowed.  Seems to me that would be very
easy to do, taking only the wire which could be strung very
easily.
Ed

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