Re: are voltage data Was: ark voltage

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

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

>...there are
> many other interesting properties to explore which hopefully will lead to a
> better understanding
> of our gaps.

Something that I have never seen quantified is the apparent difference 
in breakdown voltage for positive and negative terminals, and the weird
behavior of ball-plane gaps, that produce sparks (capacitor discharge)
practically only when the ball is the positive side. With opposite 
polarity there is just corona, or very short sparks.
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/wazlspk.jpg
This is a spark from my recently built Wehrsen electrostatic machine:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/wazwork.jpg

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz