Re: Streamer Behavior

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Greetings Bart,

On 19 Dec 2001, at 8:12, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

<snip>
> Streamer length appears correlated directly to power AND how the point of
> charge is built and released
> at the toroid.

After some experiments a while ago I came to the conclusion that 
buried in a strong power dependence there is a weak sparklength 
dependence on output voltage and (separately) charge availability at 
the terminal. In meeting John Freau's sparklength vs power forumla 
requirements there must be an optimum configuration to produce both 
these things in suitable quantities. That is my future angle of 
attack.
    I remember a story from Richard Hull once on testing a coil. The 
nub of it was that at some power (about 6kW I think), he was seeing 2 
-3' streamers. With power increased by a single kW to about 7, 
"suddenly the 8-footers were there".

Regards,
Malcolm