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[HorizonDelta]

Good vid ! More Tesla tech in "Wonderful electric lightinn" bu HorizonDelta ;-)

[NOBLIC]

луч смерти Тесла...

[sprogdiklis]

you using nst?

[holycrapapie]

You just created a working lightsaber XD

[stagethree]

back in 1999 I uploaded a video of my first tesla coil on google video, just type (tesla coil slayter) its 7 minutes long, my coil had a couple of very long single discharges just like that but I used the richard quick gap not the rotary

[1slomr2]

Thanks for the link to your video. After all these years yours is the first I've seen with the same effect.I think it has to do with the fact that that the current in the coil does not in fact flow through the coil but in the field surrounding the coil.You can see that by changing the speed of the rotary gap we could get the discharge to sync-up and stand still.We did this many many times so I don't think it was just a fluke.Thanks for your link,you are the first to show this same effect.

[stagethree]

the electricity cant leap back to metal or gases that are the same potential it is therefore it stays in the middle, you can use this law to guide the discharge, if you put a sharp point on your ball and a hoop of wire in front of it all electrically connected together the same the arc jumping from the needle point will veer away from the hoop in front of it, the hoop must not arc out so insulate it or use something that is smooth or large diameter like copper 1/2" tubing

[1slomr2]

well you can see I had no point discharge point and no target so I don't see your point!!!!

[stagethree]

sorry Im off subject, You have a working plasma channel tesla coil, good job, try routing the arc by putting smooth conductive

obsticles in its way that are connected to its top load. keep building onto your tesla coil. Dont give up. Your experiments will inspire future coilers to new levels beyond the old classic coil

[gt4awd]

My coil setup also produced a floating streamer for a short period of time. Standard static spark gap 9kv 30ma with sphere topload. Video is "Tesla Coil - Rare Floating Streamer". Nice coil you have there by the way.

[DeliriumSC]

What beautifully eerie music...

[1slomr2]

mike oldfield, dubbed from on old 8 track

[DeliriumSC]

Tubular Bells, if I'm correct.

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

also used for the soundtrack on The Exorcist movie

[PoWerExcesS]

i'm a noob so i dont get it

What is the strange discharge?

Do you refer to the shape of the sparks?

I think the tend to go upwards...

Is that it?

[boxa888]

yea the spark is uniting as one beam. it usually is all over the place. thats why its strange, it could be resonance or something like that

[tonyrosam]

notice how the interference from (rotory spark gap?)happens at each stationary electrode point, and then moves up the screen, unexplainable phenomenon

[PwmPhysics]

Any spark gap tesla coil with a round topload and at lest 6Kv 60ma NST with a good cap. This only* works in no wind and can't work out doors.

[1slomr2]

show me yours!

[boxa888]

u ever figure out why it combined like that, supposedly tesla made the frequency so high that you would get that effect, solid beams instead of crazy streamers. u know the frequency and voltage??

[Sterlin876]

lightsaber

[hboy007]

that's really beautiful

[howlbigbadwolfbeta]

i sware you just want that thing to lick him one good time! :P

[segarza]

Nice fat, hot plasma discharge. Beautiful! Good job!

[toiletsounds]

omg its big blue noisy gaahhh i wanna touch it >:O

[666tear666]

ttly sick!

[darkenlightenment]

HA i love how you used the exorcist theme

[1slomr2]

lol this is old!I used an old panasonic vhs camcorder and the audio was was dubbed from an 8 track tape glad you liked it.

[paxgladius]

that was totally awesome :)

[ct92404]

Awesome! I've never seen a discharge like that before! In a well-tuned coil with a lot of current in the secondary, I've seen streamers climb up slightly (but mostly outward) but I have NEVER seen a streamer going straight up like that before! All I can think of is that maybe there was something in the celing that affected the electric field enough to cause the streamer to climb, but not enough voltage to connect. I built a small Tesla Coil (about 100kv), but nothing like this!

[RotogenRay]

The better tuned a coil is (with a rounded toplod) the more straight up the streamers will be.

The streamer is literally spinning while sitting on top of the toroid there.

[12creations]

I think you mean "sphere" or "top load" not "toroid." But yeah my tesla coil does the same thing :) Very cool looking.

[1slomr2]

can you put up a video showing the same thing?

[12creations]

I would but I do not have a video camera nor do I know anyone that has one :( Well, anyone that would lend one to me. Plus I need a new transformer for it. Let it run for too long and it had a kick back and damaged the Transformer :/ I could fix it but it's just too time consuming.

[12creations]

It's all about having the Tesla Coil in tune and having a high bps on the spark gap so that each spark will follow the same path as the previous spark. Also, having no wind in the room helps :)

[g00521280]

what is it?

[teslaspigeon]

absolutely mesmorising!!

[RjThisper]

Why (other than how absolutely COOL it is) did you build it?

[MartinameTesla]

Very good Tesla transformer,ta stabilizace plazmatu je vskutku neskutečná.Sorry i´m not speak english.

[frosty956]

Amazing! i have also seen this before but it only seems to happen when you use shperical toploads

[tesla242]

Amazing, i have seen this efect before, but never, never for such a long time! congrats!

[mkeyser]

What kind of BPS range do you use for this kind of arc stability?

[1slomr2]

sorry but don't remember exactly,I recorded that video about 15 years ago!I think the break wheal had 12 contacts and 2 stationery gaps and the motor was controlled by a variac that you can see my friend Bob adjusting to get into resonance.The coil was built from plans from one of the books lindsay press used to publish.I'll try to to get more info later.Scott

[mkeyser]

Thanks. It looks like you're approaching a 'flyback' duty here, so your BPS must be really high, I'm just curious what it is.

[1slomr2]

sorry,checked and it was 8 contacts not 12 +2 stationary.Scott

[teriiret]

COOL! Do you have website showing your setup ?

[wbeaty]

Yeah, that's the flow gradient plasma stabilizing effect. I happens when the core of a vertical spark heats up and rises faster than the cold outer region. In the last 2yrs at the UW they're studying that effect for fusion (the big problem with fusion is that the plasma-pinch path in vacuum is unstable. Adding a gas jet can make it stable.) For public demos at the UW, they use a neon sign transformer with the arc jumping between vertical electrodes. It acts like a candle flame.

[1slomr2]

Hi Bill, just thought it was strange that I had never seen any other video of a tc having a spark discharge so stationary.I made this video about 15 years ago and was going to send stills of it to tcba but never got around to it.Scott

[wbeaty]

lol. I have a similar (1993?) video from a Bob Svangren in souther WA state. His was a huge TC, maybe 8ft x 1ft. I think a sphere is necessary, since it has vertical e-field above, and the arc follows the e-field direction. To get these "candle flame" effects, the arc must migrate to the top and fire straight upwards, rather than sideways as from a toroid.