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Re: TC Critical Coupling (was Overcoupling



Hi Malcolm,	

	There is no doubt that direct strikes to ground instantly drain the whole
system of energy.  The currents must be enormous but the times are very
short (another thing I need to study more :-)) 

	I have a though about streamer color.  I wonder if relatively small top
terminals driven with lots of power have brighter blue streamers while
large top terminals with lower power have the more purple streamers.  I am
thinking that the smaller top terminals simply need more current to drive
long streamers out into the lower E-fields around small terminals. 

Just a thought....

Terry






At 02:50 PM 5/18/99 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi Terry,
>
snip.........
>
>Air streamers do not dissipate much power according to my observations
>but attached streamers can rapidly suck nearly everything from the 
>secondary in short order. Perhaps if we started by specifying a 
>streamer length together with brightness we would be designing the
>innards of a black box (which might or might not be a Tesla Coil)
>to do this :)
>
>Malcolm
>