Re: History Channel Show on Lightning 1-25-06

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Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi David,

It was a great show.  Beautiful pictures of "spider" lightning.  I 
was surprised at how close a lightning strike came to the space 
shuttle on the launch pad without hitting the tower.  It looked like 
Daniel's big TC had a static gap using maybe 2 inch CU pipes.  His 
toroid looked ugly but seemed to do a good job :-))

Gerry R


> Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I haven't seen anyone post anything about this yet,
> but did anyone see the History Channel program on
> lightning yesterday evening (it showed at 8 PM EDT-
> 7 PM CDT locally). It had a good article on a huge
> homemade Tesla coil made by Daniel Greenhouse
> who was wearing the chainmail suit and letting his
> 15 ft. tall Tesla coil strike him while running. Is Daniel
> Greenhouse on this list? It was a nice little cover of
> a big Tesla coil.
>
> David Rieben