Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here . . . .

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>


I agree with Terry.  A TC probably isn't the best way to go to produce ball
lightning.

A Marx impulse generator would be the logical approach.

A kids, we used to watch ball lightning form on a regular basis as a
thunderstorm approached under the "V" of a ground wire on a 600 ft. tall FM
transmitting tower in the Baraboo Bluffs.  It would grow in size and finally
break off and float around for 20-30 sec.  Some lasted as long as a minute.
Some would break off and actually come at us.  We ducked behind something
but as kids we thought it was great fun.  No one ever got burned or
anything.

There was always a huge pile of dry leaves sucked up near the base of the
tower after the ball lightning formed which leads me to believe it is a DC
or electrostatic effect.  The FM power was only 10 kw so that isn't very
much.

The grounding was changed after one ball came through a wall and nearly
almost hit the radio station's engineer.  They got sick of it terrorizing
their children as they lived in a small home in the transmitter shack under
the tower.  Rebonding the grounds changed something and no one has seen it
since.

Dr. Resonance



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Subject: Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here . .
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> Original poster: "harvey norris by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>
> --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> >
> > Hi Captain,
> >
> > I too watch the ball lightning subject.  Lots of
> > cheap talk, but so far
> > those that have demonstrated solid reproducible ball
> > lightning are... None ;-)
>
> Dont get me wrong, I havent produced it in a stable
> form as found in nature, but momentary expressions of
> it might be found in systems of self quenching arc
> gaps, such as
> Ball discharge from 440 volt BRS
> http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/teslafy/files/Dzl1373.jpg
> Also returns of energy in the form of rf kickback,
> where I had one of these go off about a half inch away
> from my thumb, just lucky I guess since later on I
> sawed the same nail off with a saw by accident!;
> Smaller Kickback to show plug connected to 440
> transformer secondary
> http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/teslafy/files/KCB/DzlF191.jpg
> The concept of a source frequency quenched arc gap:
> HDN on AC Resonance
> http://groups.yahoo-dot-com/group/teslafy/message/451
>
>
> >
> > The number solid reproducible ball lightning
> > experiments/demonstrations
> > remains at a very solid "zero"...  A few folks have
> > attempted to reproduce
> > the Corum's ball lightning work but without
> > successes and some bitterness.
> >
> > I had an idea many moons ago that I was going to
> > explore, but as I write
> > this I seem to have total forgotten what it was 0:-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >
> > At 08:53 PM 9/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Just wondering if anyone on this group has (or
> > knows) anyone who has
> > >successfully reproduced Tesla's and Corum's
> > experiments regarding the
> > >generation of ball lightning.  If so, I'd be
> > interested in learning about
> > >the theory regarding this.  I've thoroughly read
> > the notes of Tesla
> > >regarding this, but it seems much to cryptic for me
> > and seems to left out
> > >quite a bit of details!!!
> > >
> > >"Captain Corona"
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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