Re: Streamer loading effect

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

In a message dated 8/10/02 3:01:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> << Steve's observation of the streamers growing when the coil was tuned
> a little to the low side seems to support the theory. I don't have a
> coil I can experiment on yet, and would like to know if slowly adding
> turns as the coil fires could extend the existing streamers... 
>
> -- 
> Wells Campbell



Wells,

My guess is that lowering the frequency while the coil is running
won't help the spark length compared to simply lowering the
freq before running the coil....at least in most cases.  If the toroid
is so large that the sparks cannot break out when the coil is tuned
lower, then the method may give some benefit (maybe). 

If the frequency could be
lowered as the sparks are growing during each bang in real time,
this may do something.  This would require some sort of electronic
tuning means, rather than mechanical, to be fast enough. 

Cheers,
John