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Hi All
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From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 1998 4:28 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Hi All
Hi Cabbott,
> From: Cabbott Sanders [SMTP:cabbott-at-cyberis-dot-net]
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 2:51 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Hi All
>
> Hello, my name is Cabbott Sanders.... I am a fairly inexperienced Tesla coiler,
> with a lot of extra cash and a hellava big project on my hands... to produce ball
> lightning using an out-of-phase dual tesla coil arrangment. This has been done
> before, but didnt recieve much recognition and was dropped immediately after these
> two physicists made up some theory about how ball lightning works. My website
> still needs to be updated, but it details my design work.
>
> I am currently constructing two seperate tesla coils, both running off of the same
> cap/power supply.. (Has this been done by anyone recently?) but with one
> catch....(hehe) listen carefully:
>
> The primary frequency will be constant with both primaries... (both primaries will
> be identical, hooked in series)
>
> however, the secondaries will be much different.
> one will resonate at double the frequency as its primary, and the other will
> resonate at 3 times the frequency of the primary. the primaries (hooked in
> series) will act as a hammer to each coil, making each one ring at its own
> specific frequency. Why you may ask? well because... each coil will at first be
> in sync... but as they ring, suddenly they become completely 180 degress out of
> phase!! this sudden rise in potential gives way to a sudden direct discharge
> between coils. this is the secret to artificial ball lightning generation, as
> proven by Corumn and Corumn in 1991. (I have references) Now there is a complex
> theory behind all this, and that is what i am about trying to explain and prove
> with my setup. Basically, what it takes to make ball lightning, is to achieve the
> MAXIMUM rise in current density within a space. Yes, there is a maximum rate that
> a current flowing from point a to b can change. they've done this experiment
> dozens of times, in countless universities. its called the "z-pinch" experiment.
> However, they seem to think they have reached the maximum current density in the
> universe.... when actually they have just reached the maximum change in current
> density. what happens when a plasma reaches this limit? ball lightning!
What is to stop you reaching those potentials with a single coil?
Don't streamer propagation times determine the speed with which
discharge currents build up? I'll be very interested to hear your
results.
Malcolm
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