Ball Lightning

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

Tesla list wrote:
 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

> I once got some interesting effect by placing a candle whose wick
> had a thin wire in it on top of my 3.5 inch little coil.  Kinda
> neat to see the streamers issuing from the flame of the candle.

	Candle (or any) flame is a low energy plasma.  Conductive.


> >    A friend of mine tried putting burning rubber bands (messy) at the top
> > terminal and passing a discharge through them.  He got an effect which
> > looked to him like the sort of ball lightning Tesla reported.  I think I
> > have a paper from the Corum's stating much the same thing.

	Yep.
	Corums cite Faradays Natural History of a Candle.
	They speculated that Tesla's use of rubber insulated wire
	led to 'seeding' effects, which helped towards Ball Lightning.
	The BL field is still pretty wide open...

	best
	dwp