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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Bert Hickman [SMTP:bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 9:07 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:36 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> At 12:16 AM 3/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
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> >From: Robert W. Stephens [SMTP:rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 12:27 PM
> >To: Tesla List
> >Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> >
> >> From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> >> Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 11:22 PM
> >> To: Tesla List
> >> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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> >John Couture wrote:
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> >> Because the TC system contains capacitors it has the ability to store
> >> electrical energy over more than one spark gap operation. This means the
> >> electrical energy can build up in the secondary circuit and provide one
> >> extra long random spark. This type of operation is obvious because the
> >> random sparks emitted from the secondary terminal are not of the same length
> >> indicating different amounts of voltage and energy on the secondary terminal.
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John,
Sorry - I've got to agree with Malcolm and Rob here...
With the base of the secondary coil grounded, a typical coil/groundpath
resistance of less than 1 kOhm, and typical coil and terminal
capacitance of 50 pF, the amount of time that any residual static charge
to fully dissipate would be a maximum of 250 nSec. The bang-to-bang time
is about five orders of magnitude longer than this... No residual ES
change will be there. Other gas-discharge phenomena under repetitive
sparking conditions are much more probable explanation for varying
spark length...
-- Bert --