RE: IT LIVES!

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 4 Apr 2005, at 8:45, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>  >Please respond on the bizarre phenomenons...
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> The freaky dots are caused by the light from your spark gap. Because
> you moved the camera a lot during the long exposure, they smear all
> over the frame. The spark gap light is not continuous but a series of
> very short flashes so that explains why it appears as a chain of dots.
>
> I've seen some similar dots in my pictures on this page
>
> http://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/t2tl.html
>
> but the camera was on a tripod in this case so the explanation must be
> different. I think the light was bright enough to confuse the camera
> chip or something.

I think it may be electrical interference ending up in the memory.
Note the regular dot pattern in the shot of your coil (regular
impulses occurring while the CCD was scanning?).

Malcolm


> Nice coil!
>
> Steve Conner
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