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Re: Secondary Coil Electrostatic Charge



tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com On Thu, 21 Mar 1996 20:02:50 +0700, you
wrote:

>>From SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu Thu Mar 21 15:11 MST 1996
Steven,
	More food-for-thought, As soon as I get my TC tuned/finished,
I am going to have to build a field-mill and find out.
>
>Could charged particle mass/mobility also contribute to this affect?  
>One of the first things we learned in EE is that even though current is 
>defined like it's the protons that make it all happen, thatt's simply a 
>convention and it's really the electrons that are flowing.  Given that an 
>electron's mass is a few orders of magnitude smaller than a that of a 
>proton, it would seem reasonable that the electrons would be much 
>easier to "project" so that a negative charge would be more likely to 
>accumulate on an object?  Have the DC charges you measured been 
>positive or negative?
>
>Along the same lines, is the discharge from a Tesla coil essentially 
>electrons or does it cycle between electrons and protons? 
at a 1800:1 mass ratio, I don't think so.
> I had assumed that it was essentially electrons and that, again, the protons 
>were relatively immobile.
>
>
>Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)
>
>
	jim