Re: Ball Lightining

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi All,

I tried power arcing my CW coil as Richie describes.  I was only able to
pump about 200 watts delivered power into the arc since the generator was
not matching well.  I did not see anything like Richie's sparks but I think
I just did not have enough power.  I certainly do think it works, I just
need more power.  I made a movie of the arc.  It is 5Meg in size (sorry
about that).  Hot-streamer has 256kBPS upload speed.  You can see a lot in
the arc but just not enough power...

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/capa1465.avi

This is using the DivX Codec 4.11

http://www.divx-dot-com/divx/index.php

It's the best most compressed video thing I know off.  The "codec" is some
sub program that allows video players to record and read it.

Even though I did not have enough power, I was pleased the technical video
stuff worked so well...  

Cheers,

	Terry


>Hi,
>
>The ball lightning folks might want to check out the "An unusual phenomena 
>frequently observed above power arcs." about two thrids down this page at 
>Richie's site:
>
>http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/sstate.html
>
>I have heard a lot of stuff about ball lightning over the years and this 
>looks like a very promising clue.  I'll set the "stuff" up tonight to see if 
>I can get it to work...
>
>Cheers,
>
>	Terry
>
>