Re: OLTC update

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Terry,

Regardless of exposure, it appears "all" on the left spiral in one direction
while the right in the other direction. It is quite interesting and a good
observation which I had overlooked. It appears "not" random.

Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I should point out that the picture has sort of a long exposure (not sure
> how long but about 1 second).  So the streamers may not have been occuring
> at the same time.  I should try and set this up again...  I would think any
> coil would do this same thing.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
> At 09:16 PM 10/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Terry,
> >
> >Not only are the streamers off the bulb straight and spiraling, but one
> >side is spiraling opposite to the other side.  Looks like the left side
> >streamers are clock wise and the right side are counter clock wise off the
> >bulb.  This definitely has implications as to the flow of electrical energy
> >in to - out of streamers on opposite sides of the bulb.
> >
> >> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P9290027.jpg
> >>
> >> Cool that the streamers were coming off the glass and were so straight at
> >> first.  I think I'll get on of these neat bulbs myself!
> >
> >RWW
> >