Re: Jacobsladder-Oscillator

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 09:05 PM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
> Original poster: "Kurt Schraner" <k.schraner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > At 05:24 PM 3/28/2007, you wrote:
> > > Original poster: "Kurt Schraner" <k.schraner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> <snip>
>
> > > Hi Jim,
>
> Sorry Jim, I've to disagree respectfully. I 
> think, in the speed of answering, happened a 
> little error: In my physics textbooks I read:
>
> 1 amp, 1 meter spacing, 1 meter long, = 2*1e-7 Newton
> (which is connected with the definition of the Ampère)
> And the formula for magnetic force between 2 (long-)parallel wires:


You're right... Oh well.. just off by 7 orders of magnitude.

Ignore all my speculation then.. microNewtons isn't going to do it.


> By calculation I get around 0.4 Newton. And the 
> wires were attracting, not repelling each other, 
> in the experiment below. There was also no 
> measurable current, except at the very end of 
> the movie, when we intentionally provoked a spark.

You're right...




> > > An experiment, proposed by Gerry Reynolds, which also is
> > > demonstrating the electric/elecrostatic-force influence, was posted
> > > yesterday.
>
> Better, I had given the archive link before:
> http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2007/Mar/msg00635.html
> ...or, at least the link to the (3.6M)movie:
> http://twfpowerelectronics.com/~kurt/InductionCoils/P1000678.MOV
>
> Thanks, and best regards,
>                         Kurt


Thank *you* for catching a truly egregious error..

Jim