Re: Coil Experiments in Austin

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• Subject: Re: Coil Experiments in Austin
• From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:37:17 +1200
• Subscriber: MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Wed Feb 12 23:06:37 1997

Earlier I wrote in reply to Greg Leyh:

> > I hope to do so by bootstrapping the secondary with a 100 kJ, 25 kV bank
> > of capacitors, fed by a 100 kVA capacitor charging power supply.  In this
> > way whenever the streamer connects solidly with a grounded object, the
> > caps will disruptively discharge thru the arc, followed by 100 kW of CW from
> > the DC power supply.  Then when the streamer breaks away or is interrupted,
> > then the power supply will recharge the caps.
> > 
> > Any comments regarding the feasibility of this setup will be appreciated.
> 
> Ball lightning production could be on perhaps. Any chance that the 
> caps will charge to destruction? I guess you'll be isolating the 
> charging supply with chokes?

A further thought: some of the discharge current from the caps will 
end up in the primary. It might matter.

Malcolm

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