From: "Terrell W. Fritz"
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:31:30 -0600
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Top Voltage
I went back in with the plane wave antenna and caught one of the Big Ball arcs:
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PaulArc/020913/Tek00005.gif
Much different than:
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PaulArc/020913/Tek00004.gif
I suspect the fiber optic transmitter just saturated it all into a blob. Time
for the 0.1 ohm resistor...
I took this shot at the same input level with no breakout:
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PaulArc/020913/Tek00006.gif
Here is one with breakout:
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/PaulArc/020913/Tek00007.gif
You can see how the single pulse drained energy from the system. If one where
clever, one could find how much energy ;-))
The base current (blue) is 1 amp = 1 volt but I have no cal for the secondary
voltage shown in yellow here. If we can estimate it, we know the arc energy.
I should take a picture of the arc too. I don't even know what it looks like.
I just watch the scope ;-))
Cheers,
Terry
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.