Re: this was probably really stupid

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Original poster: Jimbo07031982-at-aol-dot-com 

  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
( grin)got a good point there