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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 14:32:19 -0600
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Approved: tesla@stic.net
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From: Bert Hickman [SMTP:bert.hickman@aquila.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 1998 9:15 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: Barton B. Anderson [SMTP:mopar@mn.uswest.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 1998 4:09 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> Tesla List wrote:
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> > From: FutureT [SMTP:FutureT@aol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 1998 6:57 AM
> > To: tesla@pupman.com
> > Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> > Bert, all,
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> > Interestingly, when I did some experiments in which I pulsed a
> > spark gap TC at about 4 pulses per second, each streamer followed
> > the path of the previous streamer in most cases, even though the
> > ion trail was visibly dark for quite a while between pulses. I wouldn't
> > have thought it would maintain the ionization that long, it may have
> > been just the heat path that did the trick, interesting to watch though.
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> > John Freau
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> John, good test. I'll have to try that once I'm up and running. I am very
> undecided on the issue of what causes "these events, and others" which we all
> seem to have our own clinged to theory's based on understanding, measurements,
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> and test like these.
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> Is there a way to remove ionization and heat at a rate greater than the
> discharge rate
> can reproduce? Maybe with an industrial fan or something? I wonder how the
> discharges
> would react then?
> |_Bart_|
Bart and all,
Operating a coil outside on a windy day substantially reduces both the
length and the duration of a given streamer, much to the chagrin of many
a coiler! :^)
-- Bert --