Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!

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Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Bill,
         Here is a chart from when he was using the smaller transformer. 
Open circuit it was 70 Volts, 30 to 40 under short, current is 1200 amps. 
The movie was of course done on the larger battery bank.
  www.hot-streamer.com/mike2004/Ball-Chart.jpg
I guess it takes a good bit of thunder to get one hot enough.
Mike

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Subject: Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!


> Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > That's pretty easy.  Just bring wires out of a wall socket and short
> > them together; should be little copper balls floating around before the
> > breaker goes.  I'm not joking and have done it accidently a few times.
>
> Good idea!  But my place is a rental, and I'm moving soon.  I wouldn't
> want to blow out a weak connection buried inside their walls.   Maybe I
> can try a couple of car batteries and some thin wire.
>
>
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