Re: [TCML] Was Primary Grounding now RF gnd Center ball safety gap / primary strikes

[jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

if i was not at collage i would go take video of my coil on top of the couple of box fans i have right now. It does seem to beg the question of if would be possible to prevent these strikes with a little wind.  i am sure that some one could make it such that the air flow was blowing up through the primary leaving plenty of room for ground strikes around it.  just a thought


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx> 

> So instead of strike rails, maybe we need to simply add small fans blowing 
> upward? I know even when there is a breeze that is too light to feel, you can 
> "see" it in the banjo effect. It doesn't take much breeze to have a fairly 
> strong influence on the streamers. 
> 
> Adam 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 12/17/08, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> 
> > From: jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Subject: Re: [TCML] Was Primary Grounding now RF gnd Center ball safety gap / 
> primary strikes 
> > To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" 
> > Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 11:06 PM 
> 
> > When running my small coil in the chemistry lab at school I 
> > got many primary strikes. But when running it at home i 
> > only got about 5 for a 30 sec run. I determind that the 
> > excessive amount at school was caused by the vent a couple 
> > at ceiling tiles away from the coil. when we taped over it 
> > the strike problem subsided to the normal or about 5. 
> > I found it interesting that the little amount or air flow 
> > from that vent that was reaching the coil caused such a 
> > drastic difference in behavior. Here is the resulting video 
> > that was taken in the chem lab 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2VJ-jnVZ4 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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