Re: Re: 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>

Hey Terry,

Oh...  Well almost SURELY better than mercury or
powdered metal (oohh that would have a pretty neato
EXPLOSION to it though) would be fine wire, launched
with some sort of wire launching device (mabey a
modified Pellet gun with darts connected to wire...
but thats getting a little unprofessional)  or even
cooler yet, a jet of water...  either of these would
prolly prove to be an awesome project, thinka bout it,
lauching it STRAIGHT up into the air, perhaps
streamers would branch off the water jet as it went
up, or shooting it long distances at things, prolly be
best to undertune the coil a little so that the
capacitance of the surface area of the water wouldnt
put it out of resonance....


later,

Cory Roussel

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >just wondering,
> >
> >Cory Roussel
> >
> >
> >
> >