Re: Ball Lightning

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Original poster: "Nebojsa Kovacevic by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <morfeus-at-EUnet.yu>

Hi!

Yes, you are right about that. Many photographs from Colorado Springs
clearly represents presence of many coils which
were adjusted to a high frequencies. From his diary we know that the base
of all coils was grounded. Tesla has been
working with multifrequency safety system of comunications, which he
patented later. He said later that the generating
of ball lightning was very hard and painful, and that the reasults appeared
to him only when he had generated diferent
frequencies with his resonators. ".....It became obvious that the ball
lightnings are interactions of two frequencies,
a higher frequency wave which is genarated on the oscillations of the lower
frequency of the main circuit....."  Very
unclear...
When we are examining his photographs from Colorado Springs, these
explanations of his became logic. It is very clear
that the way of producing ball lightning needed at first genaration of the
oscillations in the low frequency coil and
the high frequency coil at the same time, using one main circuit, primary
system-like on many of the photographs from
his diary. Necessary approach to this problem was to force the main
oscillator(relatively low frequency), to build a
high potencial, and it will explosively discharge this reservoir of energy
using perfectly time adjusted circuit of
higher frequency, which acts as a trigger. It appears that the high voltage
at the low frequency resonant electrode(or
terminal, what ever you want to call it), ionize the air just before the
component of the high frequency at the same
time discharges it`s energy into this ionized air. A sphere that you can
get this way is turning to a ball lightning.
I believe that one very critical component here (a parameter) using his
resonators is the time coherence. It is
salvable problem which, when is determined, can bring us results about ball
lightning.
But this is all so very theoretical... as a scientists, we need practical
verification.

Regards,
Nele

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Nebojsa Kovacevic by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <morfeus-at-EUnet.yu>
>
> > Maybe you haven`t had the chance to read this so far:Using the high
> > frequency coil to arc to
> > the low frequency coil, the low frequency coil would then release its
> > energy rapidly, in a
> > burst.  The burst of energy released manifests itself in the shape of a
> > ball or "bubble."
> >...
>
> I think that you will get at most a pretty conventional spark between
> the terminals of the two coils. But sparks are more tricky than they
> appear to be. A regular spark to ground from the terminal of a Tesla
> coil starts (I think) with a rapid discharge of the terminal, and
> continues for some time as an arc while the current remaining
> in the secondary coil decreases to a low value (this would happen in
> the case of a short spark, where relatively little energy accumulates
> in the terminal before the spark, and there is still a lot of energy
> trapped in the system). If the spark is to a target that has
> a rapidly varying voltage, premature or retarded "quenching" of the
> spark may occur.
> If this will cause something much different from a regular spark,
> only experiments can tell. The energy transfer time of the coils (the
> coupling) and the relative sizes of the terminals may affect the
> results.
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz