Re: Fear Factor

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Original poster: FIFTYGUY-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 10/26/04 3:05:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

 > I'm curious what
 >  needed to be done to make it run reliably upside down, though.  What
 >  keeps the streamers from simply licking upwards along the secondary?
 >  Streamers rise because of heat.  I'd expect them just to bend upwards
 >  and strike the base.  Is it required to run a breakout on the coil to
 >  prevent that from happening?

     In pictures I've seen of Richard Hull's 11E Magnifier, they ended up
hanging the resonator from the roof. Darn big toroid for a tiny (~2' tall?)
resonator, maybe that helped. I wondered more about roof hits from 11' 
streamers
than secondary breakouts with that setup.

-Phil LaBudde