Re: Ball Lightning (Moderator Comment)

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• Subject: Re: Ball Lightning (Moderator Comment)
• From: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com (by way of terryf-at-verinet-dot-com)
• Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:33:53 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Malcolm,
   In Tesla's patent for the Magnifying Transmitter (pat. no. 1,119,732), he
warns not to exceed a break rate of about 4000 BPS or a plasma fire could
break out.  I have read somewhere that this transmitter (or his Colo. Spgs
unit anyway) operated at  about 173 kHz.    This is only a guess, but it
sounds like exceeding 4000 BPS would cause the the waveform to overlap the
tail end of the previous wave, causing constructive/destructive interference
on the output.  Could this be the cause for a plasma ball to be formed?  
Mike Hollingsworth

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