Re: Why do streamers happen?

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Original poster: Liviu Vasiliu <teslina-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Try to imagine the streamers as incomplete breakdown
of the secondary capacitor (formed by the topload as
an armature and the ground as the second armature). As
the streamers grow the distance to ground decrease
and Cs goes up, puting the coil out of tune. This is
why is better to tap the primary one more turn after
resonant point to have longer sparks.

teslina
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--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: G <bog-at-cinci.rr-dot-com>
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 > Hello List,
 >
 > I was showing a co-worker some pics of my coil, and
 > he asked me why the
 > sparks shoot out into the air, with no apparent
 > receiving electrode. I have
 > to admit, I'm at a loss to explain the phenomenon,
 > except for 'the RF field
 > becomes too strong to contain the electrons.' What
 > is the scientific answer
 > to his question?
 >
 > Thank you!
 > Gregory
 >
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