Re: Natural streamer :)

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Original poster: "Allanh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <allanh-at-starband-dot-net>

Yes! I've seen them from objects on the floor, while the coil is running.

allan

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Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: Natural streamer :)


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> Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Hi All...
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> Just saw one of the most really cool things about 15 min ago..   (
> 10:17am 07-14-02)
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> I was going to go pick the wife up from work and while I was sitting at
> the stop lite, I looked over to my left and saw a streamer growing off
> the top of a metal lamp post frame. It started about 1' in length and
> increased to about 9' in about 2 seconds. and you guessed it ....
>  lightning struck ...   blew the cap off of the pole and all the lights
> down the street went out. Darn near hurt myself trying to jump away from
> the window while in the car...   ( kinda funny now that you think of it )
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> Always heard about the pre strike streamers forming before a strong
> strike but thought Id never see one...
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> kinda makes me wonder if mini streamers form on the grounded object our
> coils go for....
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> Scot D
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