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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests




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From:  Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 3:09 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests

Question:

> From:  John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> Sent:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:44 AM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> 
> At 10:10 AM 3/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
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> >From:  Greg Leyh [SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
> >Sent:  Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:16 PM
> >To:  Tesla List
> >Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> >
> >John H. Couture wrote:
> >
> >
> >[snip]
> >>   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. 
> >
> >John,
> >
> >I know that we've been over this before, but you should really 
> >_really_ look at the actual secondary current in an operating 
> >TC secondary with an o-scope sometime. I think that you'll be 
> >surprised at just how dead the coil is between spark gap firings!
> >
> >-GL
> >
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> 
>   I agree that you cannot see the static charge on the toroid with the
> scope. But why should this show up on the scope with capacitive coupling?
> 
>   JC

Ignoring the grounded toroid aspect of this, I take it then that 
lightning researchers measurements of e-fields using capacitive 
techniques have no validity. I think that would come as a surprise to 
them. I suspect it would also come as a surprise to Richard Hull who 
has done some of the best E.S. research I know of.

Malcolm