Re: Holy Crap!

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Original poster: Ben McMillen <spoonman534@xxxxxxxxx>

Terry, All,
   What about the old ceramic wire 
feed-through's used in really old knob-and-tube 
wiring? I believe I've seen some that weren't 
glazed and just plain ceramic.. It may not be 
prous enough, but it's worth a try..

Coiling In Pittsburgh
- Ben McMillen


Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: Vardan

Hi Jim,

So they might mean an actual "porous clay" thing
that, when all wet, allows current to pass
through but would still be physically like a
little "pressure canon". That might be very
similar to the situation where a lightning strike
hits the ground and drills a hole Earthwards.

I don't have anything like a clay tube. So a
power drill with a small bit :-))) I can't think
of any common items from the hardware store that
could be "utilized" right off... Most modern
clay electrical ceramics are very water proof...

The time function given is about right but I
wonder if the current is very high at first and
decreases dramatically during the event. They
might have just done a simple average RC time
thing to get the odd very low 60 amp number... I
bet it is more of a high initial pulse current to
get the explosion of plasma going and just all inertia driven after that.

Cheers,

Terry


At 06:27 PM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
>At 04:13 PM 6/9/2006, you wrote:
>>Original poster: Vardan
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The problem is - what in the world is
>>a ""Clay/tone"" ???? It really means
>>'nothing' in English.. A number of net
>>translator engines get "small" out of it
>>too... The original key word, with the little
>>spots and all lost, is "Tonröhrchen"...
>ö = oe
>die Roehre is a tube (either as in a pipe, or as in a "valve" in electronics)
>roehrchen is a small tube
>Tonroehr would be a resonant tube/organ pipe/etc.
>
>The clay-pipe reference probably refers more to
>a Tonpfeife.. a flute made of clay, as opposed to wood/etc.
>
>So, there's some sort of tube insulating the electrode from the water.
>
>It says that the current flows through the water
>for 0.15 seconds at up to 60 Amps (einflussen is the verb, here)
>
>
>The next sentence is talks about "via the
>Ueberschlag (overturning, dissociation?)of the
>water of the current (Strom) through the tiny
>tube .. the contained water evaporates.
>
>After the current impulse (Stromimpuls) a
>glowing plasmoid is (shown) from ionized water molecules.
>
>I think zeigen, here, means "created" as opposed
>to the usual meaning of pointing or showing.
>
>
>
>> I think this is one of those terms only
>> locals that really speak the language all the
>> time understand. So we need some German 
person to translate it for "sure" ;-))
>>
>>There is a city named Clayton, but I don't think it would fit in the tank...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>> Terry
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