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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 8:01 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
At 08:22 AM 3/17/98 -0600, you 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
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>> 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
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>> >> 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
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>> >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.
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>John,
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>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...
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>-- Bert --
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Bert, All -
Tesla said it was a negative charge. Some coilers have said it is a
positive charge.
The test I made indicated a negative charge.
Tesla said it was due to the fact that the RF wave is not symetrical.
What would you expect to see on the scope waveform to indicate a negative
or positive charge?
I agree there are still questions.
John Couture