Re: TC triggered high energy discharge

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jim,

I think Bill Wysock has done this.  I remember it blew out light bulbs 
around the house and such and was generally a destructive event.  I think 
the 50kV pulse discharge found it's way back in to the AC house wiring.

I think I found the picture on his site (top photo):

http://www.ttr-dot-com/hist.html

May want to contact bill for more info.

Cheers,

         Terry

At 12:46 PM 3/1/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>How would one go about arranging a test set up to discharge a very large
>energy (50 kJ) through a TC created streamer.
>
>The big cap bank might be, say 10-15 uF, charged up to, say 50-100 kV....
>
>You can't "float" the TC up to 50 kV, because the discharge would have to go
>through the TC secondary.
>
>Maybe some scheme where you get two streamers at once, one connected to
>"ground of the cap bank" and the other connected to the "hot" of the cap
>bank, with the TC toroid being like the trigger electrode in a three
>electrode gap?
>
>Maybe some sort of capacitive coupling that has low impedance at the TC
>frequency?