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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 1998 9:03 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
John, Bart, all,
> From: Barton B. Anderson [SMTP:mopar-at-mn.uswest-dot-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-at-aol-dot-com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 1998 6:57 AM
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> > Bert, all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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_|
I am in agreement (FWIW) of the heat scenario being a probable
culprit. One test I ran in a system with a high Q primary (very
important for long sparks in low powered/low output voltage systems!)
nearly doubled spark length with an increase of 1BPS to just 3BPS in
still air. A possible mechanism - rarefaction of the air. Other
exotic molecules in the vicinity probably made a difference also.
Malcolm