Re: Displacement Current Revisited

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• Subject: Re: Displacement Current Revisited
• From: Richard Hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:40:33 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

> I have noted DC voltages from TC's from 10 watts to 13KW input energies.
> The DC electrostatic component is there whether one is breaking out or not
> when using spark gapped systems.  The effect is indeed maximized by spark
> breakout as Dave Sharpe and I reported in the older ESJ article on the
> phenomena.  The spark induces a good deal of current into the medium and
> this might produce the current required to kick in the rather crude compass
> mag field detector.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

>
>
> If he performs the experiment with the voltage set so that there is *no*
> breakout, and the compass still shows a similar action, then the compass
> indication will have been proven to *not* be due to a rectification action
> caused by the output spark itself.  If the compass did not show a reation
> under these conditions, then I'd say he would have pretty convincing
> evidence that the output spark itself is causing rectification.
>
> Bert Pool

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