Re: Odd streamer photograph (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:20:39 -0500
From: Drake Schutt <drake89@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Odd streamer photograph (fwd)

Well your topload seems like it has a lot of big dents in it, so I bet that
has something to do with it.

On 5/15/07, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: M G <gt4awd@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Odd streamer photograph
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> Back when I still had my first coil setup working I took the time one day
> to get a good amount of photographs of the it in operation. The coil, a
> 9kv 30ma 4" secondary, was close to tuned for the photographs. Max
> streamer length about twelve inches. Well, the first thing that strikes
> me as odd in every photograph is the right side of the coil would always
> make slightly longer streamers. This side was facing the garage door,
> which is all metal, but about five feet away.
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> The right breakout streamers usually appeared to be more elongated in the
> photographs, whereas the left streamers would be more compact and
> "bushy". What is really odd though is this one photograph I captured.
> It's of the coil running with two equally separated breakout points. In
> this photograph the left breakout streamers seem to have hit an
> "invisible wall" leaving a vertical streamer that appears to have
> originated directly in the air, and not from the coils breakout point.
> The photograph does not show this vertical streamer connected by its end
> to any of the other streamers originating from the breakout point. I was
> wondering if anyone has an idea as to why this odd streamer formed?
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> Link to image;
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2087/1000194vw8.jpg
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> If the image does not load after twenty seconds refresh the page.
> Imageshack has a lot of "lag" problems from overloaded servers. Here are
> links to the other photographs I captured that day.
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> Links;
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/77/1000199sp5.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6572/1000198hd7.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4342/1000197zl1.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7489/1000196yd8.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3533/1000195ud2.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5968/1000192hi2.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1650/1000191ie2.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1447/1000190qb9.jpg
> http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3238/1000193dv9.jpg
> http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/9637/1000178nc0.jpg
> http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7522/1000166we5.jpg
> http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2921/1000165iq1.jpg
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> Photographs were captured using different camera settings to find the
> best results.
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> Thanks,
> Matt G.
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