Re: Positive VS negative streamer

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• Subject: Re: Positive VS negative streamer
• From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:31:42 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 03:51 PM 10/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "B**2" <bensonbd-at-erols-dot-com> 
>
>Hi All,
>    Found the following information.  Seems to relate to recent measurements.
>
>Quote:
>
>"EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED IN THE LABORATORY
>
>    To understand the basic mechanism by which the positive corona sheath
>is neutralized by the return stroke, we conducted the following experiments
>in the laboratory.  The potential of the central wire of a coaxial
>cylindrical system was raised to a very high level by applying a positive
>voltage impulse.  This pulse led to the generation of positive space charge

-----------------  snip

  It should be noted that the Tesla coil uses a high frequency dampened
sine wave not a voltage impulse. So how does this post apply to Tesla coil
operation?

  John Couture 

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