Original poster: mercurus2000 <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
You know what's amazing, look how close the setup is to the
computer, and it didn't fry it, I would have thought something like
that would cause some major interference.
Tesla list wrote: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