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Re: Secondary Coil Electrostatic Charge
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Secondary Coil Electrostatic Charge
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From: jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-com (Jim Fosse)
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 05:42:16 GMT
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>Steven,
> More food-for-thought, As soon as I get my TC tuned/finished,
>I am going to have to build a field-mill and find out.
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>>Could charged particle mass/mobility also contribute to this affect?
>>One of the first things we learned in EE is that even though current is
>>defined like it's the protons that make it all happen, thatt's simply a
>>convention and it's really the electrons that are flowing. Given that an
>>electron's mass is a few orders of magnitude smaller than a that of a
>>proton, it would seem reasonable that the electrons would be much
>>easier to "project" so that a negative charge would be more likely to
>>accumulate on an object? Have the DC charges you measured been
>>positive or negative?
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>>Along the same lines, is the discharge from a Tesla coil essentially
>>electrons or does it cycle between electrons and protons?
>at a 1800:1 mass ratio, I don't think so.
Oops, that would be hydrogen! Nitrogen ions would be 14*1800:1 +-14 :)
( and yes, I know that it would not be +14 electrons, but I didn't
want to look up the electron capacity of the outer orbit of nitrogen.)
>> I had assumed that it was essentially electrons and that, again, the protons
>>were relatively immobile.
Another thought, regardless of the polarity, because of the 25K:1 mass
ratio for nitrogen, electrons are conducting the current. If the
toroid is positive, the electrons are moving toward it. If the toroid
is negative, the electrons are moving away from it.
jim