Re: Holy Crap!

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Original poster: Jan Wagner <jwagner@xxxxxxxxx>


On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: mercurus2000 <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
>
> Silly subject line but worth it, slightly off topic, but I think 
> everyone here is gonna want to see this.
> http://www.physorg.com/news68812957.html

Neat!

There's also a German article with a short setup diagram at
  http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_pi.html
and a short ~2MB video of the bang at
  http://www.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/de/presse/pi/05_06_kugelblitz.mpg

Pity that it is not a "contained" plasma ball, more like a plasma 
"smoke ring". Interesting though that the plasma is greenish. Maybe 
due to ionized natrium / chlorine from the salt water. Wonder if 
other salts would result in other colours :-)

The German site's diagram shows a 5 kV DC supply and 500uF capacitor 
bank, that's a few kJ, and more like can crusher than tesla coil.

cheers,
 - Jan