Hey Chris, well that is certainly far above the frame rate I expected. I am
most interested in observing the stepped leader effect in a controlled
environment (if possible), similar to an actual lightning strike.
Therefore this might apply more directly to static discharge from a VDG?
Thanks!
Matt Sweeney
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018, 10:30 PM Chris Boden <cboden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We can do up to 17kFPS here at the lab. Is there anything in particular
> you'd like to see? I know we've shot some high framerate video of our coils
> in the past. If you dig through https://www.youtube.com/user/thegeekgroup
> you'll likely find some.
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Matthew Sweeney <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > It seems like people are starting to post slow motion videos online of
> > lightning using new consumer cellphones.
> >
> > I've seen up to 1000fps if you can time it just right (you only get .2
> > seconds), or 240fps with less need for precison.
> >
> > Due to the controllable nature of a Tesla coil (and VDG to a certain
> > degree), I'd be very interested to see any such footage if members happen
> > to have those devices.
> >
> > You may not even realize you have a cellphone with such capabilities so
> you
> > might want to check just for your own benefit :)
> >
> > Matt
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