RE: [TCML] Ball Lightning

["Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Helicopters 

Check out the Kopp-Etchells effect:

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/the-kopp-etchells-effect.htm

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/the-kopp-etchells-effect-part-ii.htm

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harold Weiss
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 5:34 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Ball Lightning
> 
> Might have come from paint, vaporized metal or cable 
> insulation.  If the 
> grounding was bad, then wind creating static electricity on 
> the tower might 
> be the problem.  I have been jolted twice from a Huey while 
> hooking up sling 
> loads, and I watched one guy get hit simultaneously from each 
> skid when the 
> aircraft was coming in for the pic.  Helicopters can build 
> static fast, and 
> wind blowing through a tower and guys can do so as well.
> 
> I don't think peizo electricity would factor in unless there 
> was ground 
> deformation or seismic activity in the area.  Wisconsin 
> hasn't had a quake 
> since 1934 or 39.
> 
> David Weiss
> 
> 
> From: "DC Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> >I agree that carbon and fine metal powder has been found to 
> be the source 
> >in
> > many cases, but it does not apply to this case.
> >
> > The guy wires were very high up on the tower, some at 200 
> ft level, 400 
> > ft,
> > and 600 ft.  There was no carbon this high up as the 
> engineer who actually
> > lived with his family in a home next to the tower base (he 
> maintained the
> > transmitter in the base as well)  used to climb the tower 
> to replace 
> > lights
> > and reported nothing unusual in the form of metal.  This 
> tower ws on a 900
> > ft high hill area of solid quartzite though.  Possible 
> peizo connection?
> >
> > These balls would get large, then move from the V area 
> sometimes finding 
> > and
> > following the power lines.  In one case they came thru a 
> wall into their
> > home area and scared the entire family who was watching TV?
> >
> > After the tower was regrounded due to lightning problems, 
> it all stopped.
> >
> > DC
> >
> >
> 
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