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ball lightning requirements
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From: Cabbott Sanders [SMTP:cabbott-at-cyberis-dot-net]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 11:10 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: ball lightning requirements
I thought the same thing about ball lightning, but if you look at all these high power
tesla coils, do you see lightning balls? i don't. only in one case have i seen this
happen, and thats with the 5 kw corumn brothers dual coil.
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 1998 4:28 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: Hi All
>
> Hi Cabbott,
>
> > From: Cabbott Sanders [SMTP:cabbott-at-cyberis-dot-net]
> > Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 2:51 AM
> > To: Tesla List
> > Subject: Hi All
> >
> > Hello, my name is Cabbott Sanders.... I am a fairly inexperienced Tesla coiler,
> > with a lot of extra cash and a hellava big project on my hands... to produce ball
> > lightning using an out-of-phase dual tesla coil arrangment. This has been done
> > before, but didnt recieve much recognition and was dropped immediately after these
> > two physicists made up some theory about how ball lightning works. My website
> > still needs to be updated, but it details my design work.
> >
> > I am currently constructing two seperate tesla coils, both running off of the same
> > cap/power supply.. (Has this been done by anyone recently?) but with one
> > catch....(hehe) listen carefully:
> >
> > The primary frequency will be constant with both primaries... (both primaries will
> > be identical, hooked in series)
> >
> > however, the secondaries will be much different.
> > one will resonate at double the frequency as its primary, and the other will
> > resonate at 3 times the frequency of the primary. the primaries (hooked in
> > series) will act as a hammer to each coil, making each one ring at its own
> > specific frequency. Why you may ask? well because... each coil will at first be
> > in sync... but as they ring, suddenly they become completely 180 degress out of
> > phase!! this sudden rise in potential gives way to a sudden direct discharge
> > between coils. this is the secret to artificial ball lightning generation, as
> > proven by Corumn and Corumn in 1991. (I have references) Now there is a complex
> > theory behind all this, and that is what i am about trying to explain and prove
> > with my setup. Basically, what it takes to make ball lightning, is to achieve the
> > MAXIMUM rise in current density within a space. Yes, there is a maximum rate that
> > a current flowing from point a to b can change. they've done this experiment
> > dozens of times, in countless universities. its called the "z-pinch" experiment.
> > However, they seem to think they have reached the maximum current density in the
> > universe.... when actually they have just reached the maximum change in current
> > density. what happens when a plasma reaches this limit? ball lightning!
>
> What is to stop you reaching those potentials with a single coil?
> Don't streamer propagation times determine the speed with which
> discharge currents build up? I'll be very interested to hear your
> results.
>
> Malcolm
> <snip>
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Cabbott Sanders
Salem Oregon
Website: http://members.aol-dot-com/cabbotttt
Phone 503-390-8992
Cel 503-930-9173