Originally posted by SuperCaviTationIstic
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My Gradient Plate is similar to his Fig. 8 setup:
By inertiatek at 2010-06-03
Looking at it closely on the left side you can see there are various layers of al foil sandwitched between thicker layers of plastic. The last layer of foil, on the back, is on the surface, with the rear electrode needle touching the foil, off to the side of the aperture.
Here's the basic effect, keeping in mind the camera burn spreads the image out about 30%. I've got a two electrode gap on one side, with one of these electrodes also connected to the last foil layer.
By inertiatek at 2010-05-21
Looking at the Gradient Plate again, you can see that this setup produces both the positive and the negative magnetic forces. In addition to the longitudinal expulsion of the plasmid (the positive force action), there is also a spiral burn pattern which starts at the 10:00 o'clock position on the edge of the hole and spirals outwards. This is the negative force action. So what I'm doing isn't actually Ball Lightning, although I have produced that effect with my approach, using reverse polarity. That spark, instead of flinging out radially, curled around forming the surface of a hollow sphere. And I saw something like this gradient plate on Star Trek: Voyager, except it had a lot more layers.
My favorite Ball Lightning launcher was when a co-worker unspooled some wires and pushed the ends into what was thought to be an empty conduit. (Thin wall metal pipe.) Unknown to us, there were live three phase wires way back in the pipe, which had been cut and pulled back by a previous worker. When the head of the wire bundle being pushed in hit these live wires, two live wires shorted together, then they all went phase-to-phase, with the resultant fire ball shooting out of the pipe like a Roman Candle. Luckily the end of the pipe wasn't crenelated, so the fire balls curved as they came out, missing the guy's face.
What I'm doing now is tapping the minimal plasmid with a radial pickup wire connected to a polar mass, rather than to ground. There is a substantial movement of plasmid to the pickup wire.
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