Re: deflecting streamers

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Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>

Actually,  with one of my first little coils,  I performed an 
experiment with a long glass tube...small round electrodes at each 
end (used gold earrings if I recall, for the rounded terminals),  and 
applied a vaccuum to the tube.   I could sustain a plasma stream 
between them when I made the coil run(this was a car coil powered 
system...long before I ever got online).   when I would put a 
neodymium magnet near the glass tube, I could create a 'bend' in the 
plasma stream.


Original poster: Gomez Addams


On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Ryckmans, Thomas"
>
>Is it possible to deflect streamers with an electromagnetic field
>(a bit
>like what happens in an InkJet printer)? Just wondering

I don't think so, at least not with an arc composed mostly of RF/AC
currents.  The force would be oscillating with the direction of
current and would average out to zero before you could see any motion.

Maybe you could do it with a DC arc, but:

* how would you insulate the pole pieces of your giant electromagnet
from the streamers?

* how would you create a field large enough?

  - B(G)L