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Re: BL saga



In a message dated 98-09-24 20:41:21 EDT, you write:

<< Hi all,
>           I stuck some charred wood on top of my work coil last 
> evening and fired her up. Some bright spots did appear in the 
> streamers but you really had to look for them. It would be a bold 
> soul that could claim this was ball lightning. They appeared to be 
> burining particles of carbon ejected from the charcoal, probably by 
> the electric fields. The spots were formed in air streamers and I 
> suspect that the considerably brighter attached discharges would all 
> but mask the effect. They were not at all long lived and appeared 
> only in the streamers.

Malcolm,

I and others have seen bright points within streamers under normal
TC operation.  (I may have been using a tube coil).  I saw some
photo reproductions of the Corum's ball lightning, and in most cases,
the "balls" seemed to appear along the streamers.  It seems possible
to me that in some cases, the streamer may have been too dim to
show up in the photo, and the ball may have only "appeared"  to exist
isolated?  In any case, some of the photos seemed to show bright points
that were no more pronounced than what I saw in my own coils.  
However, some photos did show a greater number of closely spaced
brighter points along the streamer.  I wonder if the photos showed
two types of glowing points, normal bright nodes, and burning
ember stuff?

John F.
 
> Malcolm >>