From: "Malcolm Watts"
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:29:04 +1200
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Toroid breakdown voltage indirect meas.
Hi Paul, On 27 Jun 01, at 23:35, Paul wrote: > > you will see a "ball" of very faint light > > Is this caused by corona forming on dust or smoke in the air > around the topload perhaps? What color - not blue I hope? In answer to the first questions, no. Blue is indeed the colour. A 9" sphere on the coil of mine produced a ball of cold streamers around 3' in diameter. Very faint. Again I initially thought it was some trick of the light - until I realized there was no other light source to account for it. Regards, malcolm
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.