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Donner und Blitzen


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From:  Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent:  Thursday, February 26, 1998 2:18 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Donner und Blitzen

HI All,

> From:  D.C. Cox [SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
> Sent:  Tuesday, February 24, 1998 9:33 PM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: Donner und Blitzen
> 
> to: L. Robertson
> 
> Bill Wysock did this same experiment back in 1984.  Nothing powerful was
> noted in the discharge, however, a photograph I took of the experiment did
> indeed indicate a very thick and powerful discharge.  It seems the entire
> winding and its capacitance absorbs the cap discharge so it is present but
> not visible to the naked eye -- it will show up on photographs.
> 
> DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
> 
> 
> 
> > From:  L.Robertson [SMTP:LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com]
> > Sent:  Sunday, February 22, 1998 10:40 PM
> > To:  Tesla Builders
> > Subject:  Donner und Blitzen
> > 
> > Hi all ... long time - no post.
> > 
> > All the talk about lightning bolts, death rays and
> > BIG capacitors got me to thinking.
> > 
> > Why not put a jolly big pulse discharge capacitor
> > between the bottom of the secondary and ground.
> > Charge it up to many tens of kV, then crank up the
> > coil as usual. Any ionization path to ground ought
> > to benefit from the energy stored in the big cap.
> > 
> > I rationalized that if the big cap had a frequency
> > response faster than the coil frequency, capacitve
> > division should protect it from voltage breakthrough.
> > 
> > So I put my 2uF 60 kV Aerovox to that duty. 
> > 
> > Initial low power testing with six inches of spark,
> > but no charge on the big cap revealed an interesting 
> > phenomenon. If the toroid was shorted to ground, nothing 
> > happened. When no spark was present, again nada. 
> > When spark was present though, a slow but steady charge
> > built up on the Aerovox. 20 seconds of spark would
> > produce about 5000 volts of DC on the capacitor.

If the cap builds up a charge naturally, why bother using a power 
supply to charge it at all? 

Malcolm