Re: Streamer Behavior

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 12/19/01 7:30:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Hi Malcolm,

Maybe the coil pulled itself into tune at that point too as the
sparks grew.  I noticed this sort of effect when the coil is tuned
outward as much as possible to optimize for full power.  If I
tune inward about 1 turn, then the effect is nowhere as pronouned,
yet the full power spark lengths are almost as long. 

Cheers,
John


>
> .
>     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
>
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