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RE: Strange Blue Glows Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.



Regarding this weird phenomenon. I have run my coil, small 3 inch
secondary, 60ma 12kv nst, 8 inch topload sphere, in my very dry
basement. I have fluorescent lights set into plastic holders all around
the coil, and of course they glow when the coil runs. Except...

After I turn the coil off, sometimes, I can touch the bulb, or "press my
abdomen against it", and I will feel a little shock, and the light will
turn on, a wimpy glow, but still on, and stay on. Eventually it turns
off. No running coil and no wires.

I chalked it off to general weirdness.

Miles

-----Original Message-----
From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:26 PM
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Strange Blue Glows Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.

 
 
In a message dated 2/29/08 10:14:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Gary.Lau@xxxxxx writes:

>I think what you observed as the tube was passed back to you is not  
phosphor persistence - it's 
>simply YOU retaining a static charge relative to the person who  handed
you 
the tube.




While the theory of a simple  static charge would set me at ease, the 
observed phenomena was:
 
1. Coil was powered by a bank of NSTs totaling a 15/120mA. Static gap,  
homemade plastic plate cap, helical primary, 5' tall  4" diameter
secondary, small 
2" spherical topload. Nevertheless managed 30" arcs off  the secondary.
This 
was almost 20 years ago, so I didn't have access to all the  good info
we now 
have!
 
2. for several minutes (and on several occasions) I would draw arcs from
the 
secondary to a screwdriver held in my hand. God knows what damaged that

might have caused. But the erroneous conventional wisdom at the time was
that  
such an activity was harmless. I *was* a bit uncomfortable when the
spark gap  
"stuttered" and modulated the output!
 
3. The fluorescent bulb (IIRC it was a T12 bi-pin, maybe only 24" or 36"

long - not the usual 4-footer?) was exposed to direct secondary arcs as
well. 
 
4. After the coil was shut off, I noticed a very faint glow on the  
fluorescent bulb. Holding the bulb in the center, if I touched the end
to my  abdomen 
the bulb would flash for an instant. Pulling the bulb away, and
re-connecting 
it to my abdomen would result in another flash every time. This  was
through 
my shirt, not even to bare skin. No rubbing or quick movements that  I
could 
easily attribute static to.
 
5. Passing the bulb to two other people who had been in the same room
while  
the coil was running, and who had even held the same bulb (but not
conducted 
the  topload sparks through it!) gave no flashes, no matter how they
tried to 
touch  the bulb to themselves or other objects. 
 
6. Passing the bulb back to me resulted in a repeat of the same effect,

although the effect was already starting to diminish in intensity.
 
7. This was during the evening of a particularly humid summer day, not  
conducive to static effects. In fact I never noticed any static
accumulation on  
the TC secondary, something I've noticed frequently with my more recent
coils.
 
    I could never come up with  a scientific explanation for the
phenomena, 
other than the TC had  somehow done something to *me*. After that I
stopped 
doing coiling for 15  years.
 
    Of course, I would love to know the mechanism,  but the experiment 
doesn't seem like a polite one to perform on living  subjects. 
 
-Phil LaBudde 
Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities



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