Re: this was probably really stupid

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

I'd imagine that nothing would occur. Folks who study
lightning and actually try and cause a strike use
small rockets with a long ground wire. They use lots
of instrmentation to measure the voltage potential,
and have to time it just right. Even then, it often
fails to cause a strike.

What could possibly cause lightning to favor a running
coil? If it's the high voltage, transmission lines
carry hundreds of thousands of volts, yet I've never
seen a pattern on the local news when they show plots
of lightning strikes.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "john cooper"
 > <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > ---------- Original Message
 > ----------------------------------
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date:  Sun, 23 May 2004 21:48:11 -0600
 >
 >  >Original poster: "Malcolm Watts"
 > <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
 >  >
 >  >On 21 May 2004, at 19:16, Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > > Original poster: Jimbo07031982-at-aol-dot-com
 >  > >
 >  > > I just got done running my coil i was doing
 > this during a pretty
 >  > > strong storm with lot's of lightning and i
 > noticed that my streamer's
 >  > > were somewhat large than they normally are and
 > at times they would
 >  > > appear to pulse. so i took off one of the
 > cover's i have over the
 >  > > window's and that is when i noticed that every
 > time the lightning
 >  > > would flash my streamer's would pulse outwards
 > and grow about 1-2
 >  > > inch's with every lightning flash. Once again
 > probably the stupidest
 >  > > thing that I could have been doing during a
 > storm but I just wanted to
 >  > > see what kind of effect the storm would have on
 > my coil.
 >  >
 >  >If your coil had been outside, you might have set
 > a record for
 >  >sparklength that would have been impossible to
 > beat.
 >  >
 >  >Malcolm
 >  >
 > Can you imagine this experiment:  Set outside a
 > large sacrificial TC when a
 > lightning storm is approaching, attach a large
 > isolation transformer
 > between the power line and TC, fuse that line as
 > well, maybe in several
 > points along its length, set up a few video cameras
 > and have an on/off
 > switch safely? away from the TC.  As the lightning
 > approaches, turn on the
 > cameras and TC.  Be sure one of the cameras is
 > fairly close to the TC and
 > mounted low, looking up with the toroid in the
 > bottom of the frame, the sky
 > above mostly filling the area to be captured on
 > video.  This should be a
 > lightning storm without rain though; but, if what I
 > think could happen
 > happens it won't matter.  I think I'd also wrap the
 > cameras in plastic and
 > have a fire extinguisher handy.
 >
 >
 >
 >



	
		
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