Re: Re[2]: big plasma ball

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Re[2]: big plasma ball
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:22:55 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi Paul,

> Original Poster: "Paul Mathus" <pmathus-at-learningco-dot-com> 
> 
>      Hmmm, obviously i need to do some more research on this.  It hadn't 
>      occured to me that I would need to evacuate the "ball", and thus need 
>      one that could stand the pressure.  I have seen some amazingly strong 
>      geodesic domes built from steel pipe but the engineering is sounding 
>      formidable.
>      
>      Could you explain what you mean by shunt capacitance?

I meant that the ball behaved somewhat like a large capacitor - like 
sticking a huge terminal atop a Tesla Coil.

Regards,
malcolm

• Prev: Re: Secondary winding spacing
• Next: Re: Mutant Tar!!
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread