Re: Ball Lightning (Moderator Comment)

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• Subject: Re: Ball Lightning (Moderator Comment)
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:25:17 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hi Mike,

> Original Poster: Hollmike-at-aol-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

Don't know, but thanks for the information. I think the CS machine 
ran somewhere around 50kHz.

Malcolm

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