Re: Long, Continuous, Steady Streamer Phenomena

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Original poster: "Mr Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <s371034-at-student.uq.edu.au>

Larger coils will do this in an even more impressive fashion if the toroid 
is smooth enough. However, most large coils use ducting or mesh toroids, 
which are not smooth enough to let this happen. You are right, it is very 
impressive indeed.

Cheers,

Greg Peters
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Queensland, Australia
Phone: 0402 841 677
http://www.geocities-dot-com/gregjpeters



----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:27 pm
Subject: Long, Continuous, Steady Streamer Phenomena

 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
 > Was wondering if anyone else had the following streamers at least
 > with their
 > mini coils.  I find that every once in awhile if a streamer breaks
 > out on an
 > extremely smooth portion of the toroid, that
 > the streamer will appear to remain in one (at least visibly)
 > steady-continuous streamer which seems to slightly "glide" across
 > the toroid
 > surface.  These streamers typically live for up to 2-10 seconds at
 > a time
 > and are EXTREMELY impressive looking compared to typical streamers.
 >
 > Anyone know what the theory of action of these long-living
 > streamers are????
 > I know Gary Laus minicoil frequently produces them as well as my
 > mini coil
 > now.  However, I don't think I've ever seen
 > them occur on larger tesla coils.
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >
 >