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RE: Strange Blue Glows Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.
Regarding this weird phenomenon. I have run my coil, small 3 inch
secondary, 60ma 12kv nst, 8 inch topload sphere, in my very dry
basement. I have fluorescent lights set into plastic holders all around
the coil, and of course they glow when the coil runs. Except...
After I turn the coil off, sometimes, I can touch the bulb, or "press my
abdomen against it", and I will feel a little shock, and the light will
turn on, a wimpy glow, but still on, and stay on. Eventually it turns
off. No running coil and no wires.
I chalked it off to general weirdness.
Miles
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Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Strange Blue Glows Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.
In a message dated 2/29/08 10:14:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Gary.Lau@xxxxxx writes:
>I think what you observed as the tube was passed back to you is not
phosphor persistence - it's
>simply YOU retaining a static charge relative to the person who handed
you
the tube.
While the theory of a simple static charge would set me at ease, the
observed phenomena was:
1. Coil was powered by a bank of NSTs totaling a 15/120mA. Static gap,
homemade plastic plate cap, helical primary, 5' tall 4" diameter
secondary, small
2" spherical topload. Nevertheless managed 30" arcs off the secondary.
This
was almost 20 years ago, so I didn't have access to all the good info
we now
have!
2. for several minutes (and on several occasions) I would draw arcs from
the
secondary to a screwdriver held in my hand. God knows what damaged that
might have caused. But the erroneous conventional wisdom at the time was
that
such an activity was harmless. I *was* a bit uncomfortable when the
spark gap
"stuttered" and modulated the output!
3. The fluorescent bulb (IIRC it was a T12 bi-pin, maybe only 24" or 36"
long - not the usual 4-footer?) was exposed to direct secondary arcs as
well.
4. After the coil was shut off, I noticed a very faint glow on the
fluorescent bulb. Holding the bulb in the center, if I touched the end
to my abdomen
the bulb would flash for an instant. Pulling the bulb away, and
re-connecting
it to my abdomen would result in another flash every time. This was
through
my shirt, not even to bare skin. No rubbing or quick movements that I
could
easily attribute static to.
5. Passing the bulb to two other people who had been in the same room
while
the coil was running, and who had even held the same bulb (but not
conducted
the topload sparks through it!) gave no flashes, no matter how they
tried to
touch the bulb to themselves or other objects.
6. Passing the bulb back to me resulted in a repeat of the same effect,
although the effect was already starting to diminish in intensity.
7. This was during the evening of a particularly humid summer day, not
conducive to static effects. In fact I never noticed any static
accumulation on
the TC secondary, something I've noticed frequently with my more recent
coils.
I could never come up with a scientific explanation for the
phenomena,
other than the TC had somehow done something to *me*. After that I
stopped
doing coiling for 15 years.
Of course, I would love to know the mechanism, but the experiment
doesn't seem like a polite one to perform on living subjects.
-Phil LaBudde
Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic Improbabilities
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