Re: Long, Continuous, Steady Streamer Phenomena

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 21:27 20/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
>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.

I get something like that on my medium-sized DC coil. They're not nearly as 
impressive as the ones I saw on Gary Lau's website. Breakout happens at a 
single point that glides around the surface of the topload, and from that 
comes one long streamer. Usually only the first 6" are straight and then it 
starts to fork. I did once get a single long straight streamer though:

http://www.scopeboy-dot-com/movie1.jpg

This coil has a very smooth shiny topload made from a stainless steel bowl.

Steve C.