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Re: Then what's the topload FOR?
Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> >
> > > But streamer formation takes place in *far* less time than the time
> > > per cycle of oscillation.
> >
> > That's not my experience here. When I first power up a
> (relatively low
> > power) coil the streamers sometimes appear to build up over a period
> > which seems like a second or more.
>
> Indeed.. but what you're seeing might be a large scale manifestation of
> lots of small scale very fast things. Individual streamers/leaders/sparks
> might grow and shrink on a microsecond time scale, but your visual response
> is much slower, so what you perceive as gradually growing streamers might
> very well be a succession of ever longer streamers that last a much shorter
> time.
Could be, as I have no way of observing the effect, but I suspect that
the streamers conduct along their whole length and, when enough power is
present, eventually form nice hot arcs. I notice that Tesla's first
"wireless power" patent includes a statement to the effect that the
streamers spread "gradually".
Ed