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Re: Brightness of streamers vs. ground strikes



Original poster: boris petkovic <petkovic7@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Steve,

> >I was puzzling over something recently. When
> messing around with my DRSSTC-
> >http://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/drsstc/woot.jpg
> >http://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/drsstc/zoot.jpg
> >The ground strikes do not seem any brighter than
> air streamers. Now on
> >pictures of larger coils, ground strikes always
> seem brighter and a
> >different colour.
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You may want to measure current in the struck grounded
rod by  ,say, Rogowsky belt sort of a registration
device.This may reveal much to you about the discharge
going on.

All the Best,
Boris