Re: TC presented by Lord Kelvin, streamer shape

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Jolyon,

It's not actually short circuiting the output. What looks like a closed 
loop is actually an illusion. Both loops are open ended... you can see the 
open end of one loop, but the open end of the other loop is hidden behind 
the other output terminal, making it look like a closed loop short is 
circuiting the output of the transformer. Faked me out the first time I saw 
it as well...  :^)

Best regards,

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Teslamania, from Stoneridge Engineering
"Electromagically" (TM) Shrunken Coins
http://www.teslamania-dot-com

Tesla list wrote:
>Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
>There does seem to be something very strange about this picture as the
>"electrodes" i.e. the wire loops appear to be short-circuiting the output
>terminals -yet corona is clearly to be seen between the wires.
>This is most unlikely unless the frequency of the apparatus were so high
>that the inductive reactance of the wire loops was appreciable.
>Does anyone have an explanation for this unusual observation?
>Jolyon.
>----- Original Message -----
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>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:56 PM
>Subject: Re: TC presented by Lord Kelvin, streamer shape
>
>Original poster: "boris petkovic by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><petkovic7-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>  >
>  > A scan of the picture should be on Hot-Streamer now:
>  > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/corona1.gif
>  >
>  > It's looks like two open loops of wire with corona
>  > in between...
>  >
>---
>At first glance It looks to me like the effect of a
>bipolar coil of extra high Fr.
>Not a sure about terminal-loops connections from the
>picture though (blured).
>I read "My Inventions" couple of years  ago.I'm going
>to borrow it from local library again and view the
>photo better.It is VERY interesting Tesla's bio and a
>brief summary of his work.
>Cheers,
>Boris
>