Re: explanation of sparks into air needed

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Original poster: "robert heidlebaugh" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Jim : when you sit in a boat in a lake and you see water inside the boat you
dip out the water back into the lake. where it came from is inside your
boat. Where it went to is the lake. A TC is similar in analogy. The air is a
great lake of electroms. When the TC spills into this lake only ripples of
charge are seen and the waves of charge travel outward until the charge is
disipated into the shore ( ground and clouds) No energy is lost it is only
neutralized back into the earth from whence it came from. Air is conductive
as is copper wire . Air is less conductive but much more conductive than a
vacuum so it takes longer to arrive at neutral ground and you see a noisy
light flash untill the waves are to small for your eye to see but
instraments can measure them much further away. The base of your TC is
grounded and the charge will eventualy return there.
      Robert     H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:30:44 -0600
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: explanation of sparks into air needed
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 > Resent-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:33:07 -0600
 >
 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > That actually isn't the question, though.  I'm looking for a good
 > explanation of "where is the spark going", when there's no explicit gap to
 > jump.
 >
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 > Subject: Re: explanation of sparks into air needed
 >
 >
 >> Original poster: "robert heidlebaugh" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>
 >>
 >> Jim: your question is valid. To use the KISS principle consider a glass of
 >> water. if gour glass will hold 250 Ml and you add 300 ml of water the
 > excess
 >> will spill out. The toroid has a specific amount of electrons it will hold
 >> as the size and shape will determin. when the total volume of electrons is
 >> exceded the excess will spill out like smoke into the air. once that point
 >> is surpassed the air conducts and the resistance of the air drops spilling
 >> out more of the contained electrons untill all electrons form a spark of
 >> ionized air , noise, and light. Then you re- fill the toroid to cause the
 >> electrons to spill out again. If the toroid is to large no sparks will
 > form.
 >> if the toroid is to small small sparks will form that are not impressive.
 >> Robert   H
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 >>> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >>> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:16:36 -0600
 >>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >>> Subject: explanation of sparks into air needed
 >>> Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >>> Resent-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:19:33 -0600
 >>>
 >>> Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >>>
 >>> I'm looking for a good short explanation of how sparks can go into air
 > from
 >>> a charged object. The problem I'm having is trying to explain that not
 > all
 >>> sparks have to go from one place to another place, partly because my
 >>> audience has a hard time conceptualizing the idea of a high field that
 > can
 >>> cause a breakdown.
 >>>
 >>>
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