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Re: BL saga
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> Original Poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 98-09-24 20:41:21 EDT, you write:
>
> << Hi all,
> > I stuck some charred wood on top of my work coil last
> > evening and fired her up. Some bright spots did appear in the
> > streamers but you really had to look for them. It would be a bold
> > soul that could claim this was ball lightning. They appeared to be
> > burining particles of carbon ejected from the charcoal, probably by
> > the electric fields. The spots were formed in air streamers and I
> > suspect that the considerably brighter attached discharges would all
> > but mask the effect. They were not at all long lived and appeared
> > only in the streamers.
>
> Malcolm,
>
> I and others have seen bright points within streamers under normal
> TC operation. (I may have been using a tube coil). I saw some
> photo reproductions of the Corum's ball lightning, and in most cases,
> the "balls" seemed to appear along the streamers. It seems possible
> to me that in some cases, the streamer may have been too dim to
> show up in the photo, and the ball may have only "appeared" to exist
> isolated? In any case, some of the photos seemed to show bright points
> that were no more pronounced than what I saw in my own coils.
> However, some photos did show a greater number of closely spaced
> brighter points along the streamer. I wonder if the photos showed
> two types of glowing points, normal bright nodes, and burning
> ember stuff?
>
> John F.
I too have seen bright points but these appeared to coincide where
streamers were heading to/from me so I might have been seeing a bead
of light head-on. In at least one of their photos, the Corums speak
of a string of balls being struck by a HV streamer. From what I saw
the other night, that is where they were being formed. I shall do it
a few more times and see what pops out. I should also try this with
different coil setups.
Malcolm