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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Jim Buck [SMTP:jimbuck1-at-bellsouth-dot-net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 5:11 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: Bert Hickman [SMTP:bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 9:07 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> Tesla List wrote:
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> > From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:36 AM
> > To: Tesla List
> > Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> >
> > At 12:16 AM 3/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
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> > >From: Robert W. Stephens [SMTP:rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com]
> > >Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 12:27 PM
> > >To: Tesla List
> > >Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> > >
> > >> From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> > >> Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 11:22 PM
> > >> To: Tesla List
> > >> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> > >
> > >John Couture wrote:
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> > >> Because the TC system contains capacitors it has the ability to store
> > >> electrical energy over more than one spark gap operation. This means the
> > >> electrical energy can build up in the secondary circuit and provide one
> > >> extra long random spark. This type of operation is obvious because the
> > >> random sparks emitted from the secondary terminal are not of the same length
> > >> indicating different amounts of voltage and energy on the secondary terminal.
> > >
> <SNIP>
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> John,
>
> Sorry - I've got to agree with Malcolm and Rob here...
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> With the base of the secondary coil grounded, a typical coil/groundpath
> resistance of less than 1 kOhm, and typical coil and terminal
> capacitance of 50 pF, the amount of time that any residual static charge
> to fully dissipate would be a maximum of 250 nSec. The bang-to-bang time
> is about five orders of magnitude longer than this... No residual ES
> change will be there. Other gas-discharge phenomena under repetitive
> sparking conditions are much more probable explanation for varying
> spark length...
>
> -- Bert --
After reading this thread for a while I just wanted to throw in my 2
cents worth.
Couldn't varying spark length be due to simple observable things? If a
spark has fewer smaller branches doesn't the extra energy remain in the
main spark channel? Also what about when a spark straightens out? And
finally if the voltage rises and the current drops (same energy) doesn't
the spark get longer and thinner?
Jim Buck