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Re: TC Critical Coupling (was Overcoupling
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To: tesla-at-PUPMAN-dot-com
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Subject: Re: TC Critical Coupling (was Overcoupling
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From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:01:34 -0600
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Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
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In-Reply-To: <B4F4D6044E-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
Hi Malcolm,
There is no doubt that direct strikes to ground instantly drain the whole
system of energy. The currents must be enormous but the times are very
short (another thing I need to study more :-))
I have a though about streamer color. I wonder if relatively small top
terminals driven with lots of power have brighter blue streamers while
large top terminals with lower power have the more purple streamers. I am
thinking that the smaller top terminals simply need more current to drive
long streamers out into the lower E-fields around small terminals.
Just a thought....
Terry
At 02:50 PM 5/18/99 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi Terry,
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snip.........
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>Air streamers do not dissipate much power according to my observations
>but attached streamers can rapidly suck nearly everything from the
>secondary in short order. Perhaps if we started by specifying a
>streamer length together with brightness we would be designing the
>innards of a black box (which might or might not be a Tesla Coil)
>to do this :)
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>Malcolm
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