Re: are voltage data Was: ark voltage

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

Hi Antonio,

Thanks for sharing your electrostatic machine photo's. It is a beautifully
built machine! The spark capture is also
quite clear (great job). Regarding the ball-plane affect with positive and
negative charges, does this affect "not"
occur in ball-ball gaps?

Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> 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