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Re: Seibt: Visualizing Standing Waves on a Resonator by Corona



Original poster: "S&JY" <youngsters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Won't long florescent lamps work well & be much easier to see than faint
corona?
--Steve Y.


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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: Seibt: Visualizing Standing Waves on a Resonator by Corona


> Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Tesla list wrote:
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>  > No pics of sparks yet. I've found the only way I can see the corona
>  > is in full and complete darkness. This isn't the type of coil that is
>  > spectacular like a Tesla Coil. This coil "really" needs to be
>  > complete darkness to see the corona wave patterns.
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> I wonder if the best gas to use is air.
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> Argon at 1atm pressure is fairly easy to experiment with.  WIth a big
> transparent plastic bag, and Argon bleeding in via a tube at the bottom,
> soon you have a pure argon environment.  Argon is a bit heavy, plus it's
> cold as it exits the regulator, so it tends to pool at the bottom and push
> the air out.   SUpposedly the same is true of Neon, but I haven't messed
> with it yet.
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> William J. Beaty                            SCIENCE HOBBYIST website
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