Streamer Launcher/Director

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Original poster: "Cory Roussel by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <imcuddlycory-at-yahoo-dot-com>

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.




just wondering,

Cory Roussel