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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests




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From:  John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:36 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests

At 12:16 AM 3/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From:  Robert W. Stephens [SMTP:rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, March 11, 1998 12:27 PM
>To:  Tesla List
>Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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>> From:  John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
>> Sent:  Monday, March 09, 1998 11:22 PM
>> To:  Tesla List
>> Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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>John Couture wrote:
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>>   Because the TC system contains capacitors it has the ability to store
>> electrical energy over more than one spark gap operation. This means the
>> electrical energy can build up in the secondary circuit and provide one
>> extra long random spark. This type of operation is obvious because the
>> random sparks emitted from the secondary terminal are not of the same length
>> indicating different amounts of voltage and energy on the secondary terminal.
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>John, All,
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>I can't believe you are still thinking in this mode John. I thought 
>Malcolm pretty much beat this point to death explaining it long ago. Sure the 
>TC contains capacitors, but your statement about energy being stored 
>in the secondary resonator to 'add up in sequential firings of the 
>oscillator gap to suddenly conspire on occasion to make one 
>occasional and random bigger streamer' JUST AIN'T POSSIBLE!

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  If you are referring to Malcolm's scope waveform comment you have fallen
into the same trap as Malcolm. Malcolm's comment regarding the time between
bursts is incorrect. The static charge on the toroid could not be seen on
the waveform because a static (DC) voltage cannot be read thru a capacitive
coupling.   

  The ionization of the air does help to some extent to maintain the spark
but it is not a source of energy that can increase the spark length.

  The random extra long spark length is not due to the "wham" you describe.

  JC

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>Now introduce the second variable phenomenon.   If this happens at the
>right moment after a series of previous pops have laid an arc channel all over
>the same path and the channel is nicely seeded with ions, wham, you will get 
>your longest random streamer!  Most of the time you are popping at 
>much less than full charge, and the streamer once launched will often 
>be heading in a different direction where there is no nicely paved 
>ion highway, so it has to break new ground as it were.  The result is 
>a less than max streamer length.
>
>Robert W. Stephens
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