Re: Jacobsladder-Oscillator

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 05:24 PM 3/28/2007, you wrote:
> Original poster: "Kurt Schraner" <k.schraner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> http://twfpowerelectronics.com/~kurt/InductionCoils/P1000671.MOV


Finally looked at the movie.. Double the force I calculated, because 
the current is flowing through the whole 2m length...

I built a thing sort of like this with electrodes hanging down with a 
weight at the bottom.  They'd swing together, start the arc, the 
force would tend to make the wires move apart, stretching the arc 
until it broke, then they'd swing back, etc.