High speed camera sees lightning streamer formation
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyUsjsJ-E0c
I just thought this one was cool. This is why above about 50kv it gets real hard to handle high voltage in air - you get these streamers due to enough field concentration at their points to ionize the air in front of them, and the spark length can then be almost infinite.
I just thought this one was cool. This is why above about 50kv it gets real hard to handle high voltage in air - you get these streamers due to enough field concentration at their points to ionize the air in front of them, and the spark length can then be almost infinite.