Re: A challenge dying tree branch

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:

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> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
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> Tesla list wrote:
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>> Hi Ed... a few years ago I put up my coil for Holloween in the back yard and
>> on each side of the toroid I placed pumkins about 4 feet away on metal poles
>> ( to attract the streamers) anywayyy...   the pumkins recieved hundreds of
>> hits that night ... the following morning when I was cleaning up, I took a
>> close look at the pumkins and noticed multiple "pock" marks on the skin of
>> the pumkins ( dark brown soft indentations about 1/8" dia) I pulled out the
>> pocket knife and carved away at the pumkin...  finding channels in the
>> underlying "flesh"  ( kinda think the path of the streamers took the route
>> of the "veins" in the flesh)  the channels were softer than the surrounding
>> material... another side note...   during summer months I have the pool set
>> up so when I run my coil it is closer to the tree...  which gets hit on
>> occasion, the branch which does get hit is dying ( mostly dead at this
>> point... were talking abou t a branch 3" in dia) ...    obviously streamers
>> do cause severe damage to living things .... Scot D 
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>         I suspect the effects you are reporting are caused by heating, not
> electrocution.  The things at the end of those streamers get hot really fast!
> Ed 

Hi..

I would agree about the heating part with the pumkin but with the branch....
that another thing.  The contact with the branch was at the very end of the
branch but the effects are causing the whole branch to die off  ( all 15' of it
...its an oak tree ...  a very old oak tree with big branches :)   )  

Im going to believe its more voltage than heat that is causing the branch to
die... 

just a thought .......   any other plausable explinations ????


Scot D