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Re: Safety FAQ is here -- draft, asking


I'm curious.  When the arc collapses a new arc or streamer is formed.  Is 
there a relationship
between the starting location of the old arc and new arc on the toroid?

                                        Barry

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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Safety FAQ is here -- draft, asking
|Date: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 1:11AM
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|> Subject: Re: Safety FAQ is here -- draft, asking for comments.
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|From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comMon Aug 26 21:32:04 1996
|Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:09:05 -0700
|From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: Safety FAQ is here -- draft, asking for comments.
|
|Tesla List wrote:
|>
|> >From wosburn-at-utk.eduFri Aug 23 22:18:10 1996
|> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:54:04 -0400
|> From: "William L. Osburn" <wosburn-at-utk.edu>
|> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|> Subject: Re: Safety FAQ is here -- draft, asking for comments.
|>
|> Richard wrote -
|>
|> >I have reviewed a number of special slow-motion segments of maggy #11 
and
|> >Nemesis.  In a number of hits, the arc channel did not rise more than
|> >2-4 inches and the arc waxed and waned four or five times over 28 frames
|> >(28/30 of a second) while the tip of the arc contact on the aluminum
|> >siding (grounded) moved under 2 inches.  I don't think the rising spark
|> >has anything to do with the final ultimate break.  The bit about the
|> >resonator failing to store the magnetic energy as the channel heats up
|> >sounds good, though.  This probably cuts the power back causing
|> >successive waxings and wanings.  Still, what causes that final shutdown
|> >and failure to restrike along a good path that is pre-ionized?  Seems
|> >like some charge depletion or saturation effect to me.
|>
|> Richard et al,
|>
|> Isn't this where Physics kicks in?  I think the minute the arc strikes 
and
|> energy is released, both in the discharge but also in the fact that the 
ions
|> give off a photon and jump to a LOWER energy level, thus taking longer to
|> charge this area.  Meanwhile the arc builds and discharges to another, 
more
|> preferable area now sufficiently charged.  I wonder if this would show in
|> video in total darkness?  The only light would be from the coil itself.
|> This is the best time to view the coils.  I guess that's why I love to do
|> this kind of stuff...
|>
|> What are your thoughts on this?
|> (Still wading through all these messages, I've been out of town for 
almost a
|> week.)
|> Later,
|> *** Magic Bill ***
|
|
|Bill,
|
|The single visible arc, over 28 video frames is struck and turned off
|hundreds of times!!  Some arcs last tens of discharges and some hundreds
|perhaps thousands!  Why?  Physics is obviously involved, but offers no
|simple answer to the question.  There are lots of suggestive thoughts,
|but no answers, yet.
|
|Richard Hull, TCBOR
|