Re: 14 ft TC spinner

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

My 14ft spinner pictures and my speculations are a bit hard to find 
in my site.
<http://tesladownunder.com/Lifters.htm#Ionic%20spinners>http://tesladownunder.com/Lifters.htm#Ionic%20spinners
They show plenty of corona and 1 foot sparks.
If my ZVS 60kV DC supply (giving only 3 inch sparks) is enough to 
turn a 3kg mass then a TC spark of over a foot long should really 
have no problem or so I thought. But despite lots of corona there was 
no net movement.
I attribute the success of small spinners and failure of large 
spinners to be due to the rectifying effects of small needle points 
giving more space charge accumulation. A large spinner has sparks 
much greater than a needle point and relatively less rectification 
and charge accumulation.
But I am really not sure, and I can think of other possibilities.

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>Mike
To: <mailto:pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Moderator requests input on "Wireless Power Transfer"

That is an interesting question....about your spinners.   are you 
getting streamers coming from other spots on your coil?    I know 
Tesla talked about the radius of curvature being fairly important in 
'holding off'  streamers and building up a higher voltage....perhaps 
this is coming into play with your setup.   I don't know
Mike

Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
.. and spinners? You will understand your coil better if you can
explain why my 14 foot spinner doesn't work with a TC whereas a 4
inch one does. Both work on DC 60kV.  No-one had a go at answering that
one.

Peter
<http://tesladownunder.com>http://tesladownunder.com