Re: Ion Motors / Electrostatic Pendulum

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
>Every coil ever made is capable of operating in a "before breakout"
>condition. Dead simple to do. Just close the gap up until the primary
>energy falls below that required to generate enough voltage in the
>secondary to allow breakout.

They arc at 50VAC input right now....still getting 6" streamers ans racing 
arcs...it's way out of tune.....working on it.


A dramatic demonstration of this was the
>sshot testing of Electrum. From memory the figures were: Vp = 34kV;
>no breakout. 35kV; 7 foot air streamers.

1. How did they run Electrum in SS mode?
2. Any pics? :)


There is much to be learned
>by operating a coil in both modes and observing the results on a
>storage scope.
>
>Regards,
>malcolm
>
>
>


duck




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