Re: Rotating sparks

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• Subject: Re: Rotating sparks
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• Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:18:06 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Rotating sparks
      Date:   Thu, 22 May 1997 04:55:18 GMT
      From:   jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-net (Jim Fosse)
        To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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On Wed, 21 May 1997 00:42:49 -0500, Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>, you
wrote:

>Subject:  Rotating sparks
>  Date:   Tue, 20 May 1997 20:06:50 -0700 (PDT)
>  From:   gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>    To:   Tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
>
>I built a tiny TC using a 6K 23 ma ignition transformer.
>The secondary is 2" dia x 6" long.  The toroid in a door knob.
>The discharge sparks are 2" long and very straight with few branches.
>The interesting thing is all the sparks rotate around the door knob 
>counter clockwise.
[snip]
Gary,
        I see these rotating sparks on my 8" by 20" secondary whenever
I use my 8" hemisphere as a discharge terminal. I'll get 3 (usually)
air discharges about 2' long that precess around the lower lip
clockwise. I't doesn't seem to matter whether I'm powering my TC with
my 15kV 60ma neon and static gap or my 7.2kV pig with rotary gap.
I've never noticed them with a toroid.

        jim

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