From: FutureT@aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:43:32 EDT
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Top Voltage
--part1_57.1276e491.2ac9e744_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, I think Ken H. also reported that his frequency shifted prior to real breakout. There was speculation back then that this was due to the cold streamers (before the hot leaders form). This may be another example of pre-real breakout loading. John > > >Malcolm has in the past reported a faint glow around his topload > > >prior to obvious breakout. > > > > That all does sound very possible! > > The effect was very real. I had to pinch myself to make sure of what > I was seeing. The most amazing thing was the volume of space the > discharges occupied. The system was operated single shot and the gap > covered (as well as the garage windows) to eliminate as much > background light as possible. What I saw was not a solid glow but a > ball of very faint streamers around 3' in diameter around all sides > of a 9" sphere. If you took successive shots with a camera, you would > see a solid glow rather than the streamers, with diminishing > intensity at the outer extremity. I have it in mind to do exactly > this when less pressing matters allow me to get back into active > coiling. There are so many things I am aching to do. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > --part1_57.1276e491.2ac9e744_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All,
I think Ken H. also reported that his frequency shifted prior to
real breakout. There was speculation back then that this was
due to the cold streamers (before the hot leaders form). This
may be another example of pre-real breakout loading.
John
> >Malcolm has in the past reported a faint glow around his topload
> >prior to obvious breakout.
>
> That all does sound very possible!
The effect was very real. I had to pinch myself to make sure of what
I was seeing. The most amazing thing was the volume of space the
discharges occupied. The system was operated single shot and the gap
covered (as well as the garage windows) to eliminate as much
background light as possible. What I saw was not a solid glow but a
ball of very faint streamers around 3' in diameter around all sides
of a 9" sphere. If you took successive shots with a camera, you would
see a solid glow rather than the streamers, with diminishing
intensity at the outer extremity. I have it in mind to do exactly
this when less pressing matters allow me to get back into active
coiling. There are so many things I am aching to do.
Regards,
Malcolm
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Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.