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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 3:09 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
Question:
> From: John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 12:44 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
>
> At 10:10 AM 3/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
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> >From: Greg Leyh [SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:16 PM
> >To: Tesla List
> >Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> >
> >John H. Couture wrote:
> >
> >
> >[snip]
> >> Because the TC system contains capacitors it has the ability to store
> >> electrical energy over more than one spark gap operation. This means the
> >> electrical energy can build up in the secondary circuit and provide one
> >> extra long random spark.
> >
> >John,
> >
> >I know that we've been over this before, but you should really
> >_really_ look at the actual secondary current in an operating
> >TC secondary with an o-scope sometime. I think that you'll be
> >surprised at just how dead the coil is between spark gap firings!
> >
> >-GL
> >
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>
> I agree that you cannot see the static charge on the toroid with the
> scope. But why should this show up on the scope with capacitive coupling?
>
> JC
Ignoring the grounded toroid aspect of this, I take it then that
lightning researchers measurements of e-fields using capacitive
techniques have no validity. I think that would come as a surprise to
them. I suspect it would also come as a surprise to Richard Hull who
has done some of the best E.S. research I know of.
Malcolm