Re: [TCML] (somewhat) high speed plasma photos from coil/capacitor interactions

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are missing most of the action by phototriggering.
Try a long exposure instead.

Peter
tesladownunder.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Bailey" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:51 PM
Subject: [TCML] (somewhat) high speed plasma photos from coil/capacitor 
interactions


> Evening all;
>
> http://casuallethality.com/?p=683
>
> Friend Mike Kennan and I have been experimenting with discharging a
> relatively most capacitor bank (100uF, 4.5kV) with a relatively modest
> Tesla coil (rotary gap, 8kV/60mA primary).
>
> Above are some (I think) interesting photographic results. All are light
> triggered, "ISO" 3200 1/3000 and 1/4000 digital SLR shots - the camera is
> triggered by a sensor/microcontroller combination (the flash of the bank
> discharging).
>
> To me the most interesting is the first, with two fairly luminous areas
> and one probably very recently luminous (far left, next to topload).
>
> Care to conjecture on the forces at play here?
>
> --
> Josh Bailey (josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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