Re: Spark Dissipation

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

In a message dated 2/2/01 10:14:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> 
>  I think that spark growth occurs at each cycle of the RF waveforms,
>  and not at successive bursts, that are much farther apart. In really
>  high-power systems, succesive streamers really tend to follow similar
>  channels, because they tend to start at the same point and follow
>  previously heated and ionizer air, but this doesn't go very far.
>  The streamers diverge from the previous path after some distance.
>  
>  Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>  

Antonio, Gary, all,

Are you speaking of disruptive coils above?  If so, 
I think I remember a test that Malcolm did at low power, where
he ran a disruptive TC at various break rates from 1bps, up to 
hundreds of bps.  I think the sparks were much longer at high
bps, than in single shot mode.  The bang size was constant
as far as I know.  My memory of this might not be perfect though?

John