Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil :>(

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Last summer while looking at, Kill some time, you tube, or one of 
those video places I saw a video of some kids shooting off fireworks 
under a HV power line.  There was a huge 60 Hz hum sound and a big 
arc that struck the ground near the kids.  They were lucky someone 
didn't get killed.





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>From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2007 8:52 PM
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil
>
>Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Yeah, the rocket was trailing a wire.  I remember seeing that on the
>program.
>
>This should probably jump to the hvlist.
>
>Chip
>
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: Mike <megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > At risk of continuing this thread,   I can imagine that if silver
> > oxide or peroxide was mixed with the rocket engine solid fuel,   as
> > an oxidizer,  then microscopic particles of silver would be dispersed
> > with the exhaust and 'maybe'  create a conductive channel.
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Since we are on this half way "on" half way "off" topic,  I remember
> > a TV show on lightning where they were measuring the field strenght
> > at a test site and at the proper time would launch a rocket.  The
> > rocket's exhaust would create a trail of conductive gasses that would
> > trigger a lightning strike at the test site.
> >
> > So.....    Has anyone tried to put a bottle rocket on top of the
> > toroid to see what would happen.
> >
> > Gerry R."
> >
> >       Are you sure that rocket wasn't trailing a wire?  That's a
> > standard technique in lightning research.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> >
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