Re: Coil Experiments in Austin

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• Subject: Re: Coil Experiments in Austin
• From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:33:27 +1200
• Subscriber: MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Wed Feb 12 22:54:38 1997

Hi Greg,
           I'd love to see this one but sadly, can't be there....

> There will be opportunities for some interesting experiments this time, 
> since I will not be allowed to attach to the local feeder -- instead
> they opted to rent a construction generator in order to isolate the coil,
> and 175 kVA was the smallest size unit that they could find!  I only need
> 50 kVA of that to run the coil, but it is now my goal to somehow dump the 
> full capacity of that generator into a 30 foot electric arc.
> 
> I hope to do so by bootstrapping the secondary with a 100 kJ, 25 kV bank
> of capacitors, fed by a 100 kVA capacitor charging power supply.  In this
> way whenever the streamer connects solidly with a grounded object, the
> caps will disruptively discharge thru the arc, followed by 100 kW of CW from
> the DC power supply.  Then when the streamer breaks away or is interrupted,
> then the power supply will recharge the caps.
> 
> Any comments regarding the feasibility of this setup will be appreciated.

Ball lightning production could be on perhaps. Any chance that the 
caps will charge to destruction? I guess you'll be isolating the 
charging supply with chokes?

Malcolm

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