Re: Streamer Launcher/Director

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

Hi Cory,

Tesla tried to make a weapon out of Tesla coils to help with WWII.  His
used (or was planned to use) a stream of liquid mercury under high presure
to guide the streamer to a target.  The Corums also tried something like
this but I think they used powdered metal.  Electron beams will not travel
in air (needs high vacuum).  Lasers are an option to ionize an air path but
if you have a laser that powerful you don't need the coil.  Argon gas arcs
easily in air (six times I think) but I am not sure how easy it would be to
get a nice stream of gas going.

A simple point would just have random streamers flying off in one place.
Nothing one could really aim.

Of course, given a Tesla coil vs. an A-1 tank, I'll take the tank :-))

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:03 AM 1/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>would it be possible to direct a streamer in a fairly
>straight path by painting the toroid with some
>nonconducting epoxy or something, so it would still
>have the capacitance (mabey even higher due to the
>stuff you cover it with) but would not shoot off
>randomly with a small pinhole in the paint (see bad
>ascii art for illustration), with a needle touching it
>so you ended up with the only part exposed being the
>tip of this needle, then having a ring about 1" away
>from the needle that was heavily charged so it
>directed the streamer twards and through the center...
>similar to the circutry of a television set display,
>except in the open... this way mabey a streamer could
>be shot like a cannon or beam at grounded targets... 
>
> ('''') /pin /charged ring
>(toroid)-  0                     (target)
> (    )    |                         |
>  |  |     |                         |
>  |  |     |                       -----
>  |  |     |                        ---
>  |  |      +/- in                   -
>  |  |
>  |  |
>========= <-pri.
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>just wondering,
>
>Cory Roussel
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