Re: Reflections in Power Transfer

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Subject: Re: Reflections in Power Transfer
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 02:04:04 -0500
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Subject:     Re: Reflections in Power Transfer
      Date:  Mon, 19 May 1997 20:05:57 -0800
      From:  Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
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Bert Hickman wrote:

> Some indirect support for this speculation comes from some of the
> laboratory work done by Allibone and Schonland, extended by Meek,
> looking a long spark propagation using streak cameras. Meek, for example
> describes the growth of stepped leaders during studies of a 100 cm gap,
> a 100 pF capacitor also connected across the gap, and a series resistor
> going to this setup from an impulse generator (p 187-189, "Electrical
> Breakdown of Gases", J. M. Meek a,d J. D. Craggs, Oxford University
> Press, 1953).


Did they study how the stepped leaders propagated vs capacitance?

-GL