RE: Streamer V/I and energy balance

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Marco,
          I too have been following your developments with interest.
Sorry for not openly expressing it before now.

On 24 Jul 2005, at 7:46, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Denicolai, Marco" <Marco.Denicolai@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Terry,
>
> Great that you did the same energy balance check on your data! Thank
> you. It is interesting to see that also you measured V and I of
> different polarity.
>
> The fact that the final energy is "the same at the end as the first
> peak" doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that the streamer
> energy "decreases" at some point. The streamer should be a net
> consumer, not a reactive energy storage. At least not so much reactive
> (capacitance should be pretty low). I'm just refusing to accept the
> streamer is "feeding back" the TC.
>
> Any clue anybody or are we just after some measurement artifact?

I think it may be real. Remember the effect I mentioned seeing in a
dark room with a spherical topload once? Also, time exposures of
streamers show the same effect but coagulated into a glow rather than
bunches of hair-like streamers. I think energy storage is taking
place there. In effect, the capacitance is more than just a straight
piece of wire the length of the bright channel. Is there any data
showing the contrary to be true?

Regards,
Malcolm

> Best Regards
>
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> Subject: Re: Streamer V/I and energy balance
>
>  >Not sure what it means but maybe the drop in your energy at the end
>  >is some oscillations or something to do with a lower band width.  In
>  >my high bandwidth case, I get a lot of ripple, but the power ends up
>  >the same at the end as the first peak.
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