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RE: Seibt: Visualizing Standing Waves on a Resonator by Corona

Original poster: David Thomson <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Mark and Kurt,

>    This is utterly fascinating. I note that in the picture
> 1750b the glowing zones appear to increase in brightness from
> bottom to top. Is this due to current distribution in the
> grounded plate, or what?

I do essentially the same thing to the corona, only it is much
more pronounced.  The standing waves of corona on my coil all
appear on the top load.  The effect is made possible by building
a combination flat spiral - tall solenoid secondary coil.

http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/FlatSpiralSolenoidCombo.htm

Dave