From: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au   
      
   On 17/04/14 23:48, Uncle Peter wrote:   
   > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:56:34 +0100, Rheilly Phoull   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 17/04/14 17:33, Uncle Peter wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:04:37 +0100, Rheilly Phoull   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 17/04/14 00:07, Uncle Peter wrote:   
   >>>>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:42:37 +0100, Rheilly Phoull   
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 16/04/14 07:27, Uncle Peter wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>> It's right through your finger down through the left leg into the big   
   >>>>>> toe and off to ground via your shoe.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But the HV generator isn't grounded.  It needs to get from me back to   
   >>>>> that somehow.  I looked inside one and only one wire leads from it, to   
   >>>>> the centre of the sphere.  Where is the other one?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Research "capacitive"   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh, you mean because the frequency is so high, the current is tiny, so   
   >>> you don't need a return, it just comes back in the other half of the   
   >>> cycle?   
   >>>   
   >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_globe   
   >   
   > I read that before posting and didn't see anything about a return path.   
   >   
   Because the return path is capacitive .... maybe from the bottom of your   
   foot, across the dielectric of your shoe/floor covering/etc into the   
   earth on which you stand, via the earth connection of the mains supply   
   to the power supply of the HV generator. Your foot/body is one plate of   
   the capacitor and the Earth is the other plate!!   
      
   Or something like that.   
      
   Daniel   
      
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