Re: TC & Lightning

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Original poster: "Ray von Postel" <vonpostel-at-comcast-dot-net> 

Suggest you take a look at: Stong, C.L. "The Scientific American Book of 
Projects for The Amateur Scientist"; 1960.
page 281 "An Electronic Weather Forecaster".  Equipment uses 10' long 
antenna, 10' above ground to observe disruptive discharges.  This might be 
applicable to monitoring coil performance.  Hope this is of interest to you.

Ray

Tesla list wrote:
>Original poster: Matthew Smith <mailto:matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au><matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>
>Tesla list wrote:
>>Original poster: "mercurus2000" 
>><mailto:mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net><mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
>>Hmm, how high up were you able to fly the kite? I have a 50 feet length of
>>insulated wire running parallel to the ground at a elevation of 10 feet.
>>With it I can only get about 10 volts max on a voltmeter while the storm's
>>overhead.
>
>Could it be that all the charge is draining through the voltmeter?  I'd 
>have thought that you'd need something with a HUGE input impedance for this.
>