Re: Lightning Generator

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Lightning Generator
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 00:19:16 -0500
Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

Subject:  Re: Lightning Generator
  Date:   Sun, 4 May 1997 12:13:04 +0500
  From:   "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

On Sat, 03 May 1997 19:40:55 EDT Mark S Graalman
wb8jkr-at-juno-dot-com wrote;

>    I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with that statement Robert, static
> simply implies potential, not AC or DC. A lightning stroke has a
> fast rise time, it is a RF voltage.

Your partialy right Mark. Static really means not moving as in the 
charge on a Van De Graff BEFORE any spark appears. It has nothing to 
do with potential just an accumulation of electrons on a surface.
Once the electrons move as in a spark they are no longer static but 
constitute an electric current, either A.C or D.C depending on 
whether the current flows only in one direction which is D.C. or
if it is oscillatory (changes direction) which is A.C. 

                               Sincerely

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