RE: Ball lightning ?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Opps, I meant "Gary" ;-))

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But...  but...  Jim.

If you don't use a "Tesla coil" to make ball lightning, "why" bother?  :-))

Of course, Ball lightning is "only" an excuse for playing with Tesla coils.
:o))  

If I do get a ball lightning machine spewing fire balls all over my front
lawn, I'll have to be like a slimy politician and change every question
asked of me back over to Tesla coils.  I'll totally disregarding the minor
fire ball thing and tell only of the cool Tesla coil making them instead!!
Sort of like being a moderator :o)))


Cheers,

	Terry


At 10:19 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Terry:
>
>Not that your 2.5KW power supply wouldn't be a really cool thing to play 
>with, but do we know that high frequencies or high voltages with respect to 
>ground are actually necessary for the creation of ball lightning, if the 
>underlying principal is burning of atmospheric gasses?  What I'm getting at 
>is, if one just wants to superheat some atmospheric plasma, it would seem 
>that a pig-powered Jacobs ladder could do that.
>
>Regards, Gary Lau
>MA, USA