Re: Then what's the topload FOR?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>



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> > But streamer formation takes place in *far* less time than the time
> > per cycle of oscillation.
> 
>         That's not my experience here.  When I first power up a
(relatively low
> power) coil the streamers sometimes appear to build up over a period
> which seems like a second or more.

Indeed.. but what you're seeing might be a large scale manifestation of
lots of small scale very fast things. Individual streamers/leaders/sparks
might grow and shrink on a microsecond time scale, but your visual response
is much slower, so what you perceive as gradually growing streamers might
very well be a succession of ever longer streamers that last a much shorter
time.


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