Artificial lightning needed

[Brian Blandford]

Unusual request - hope you can help. There is a TV program being made on the
subject of lightning, and the producers want to know urgently if there is a
lab in the UK which can generate impressive looking sparks for the cameras,
either in the open air or in glass gas-filled tubes to demonstrate an
electrical discharge, from a Van der Graaf generator, or whatever. Email me
at physics.org if you have any ideas. Thanks.
--
Brian.Blandford
5 Kingsway Mansions
Red Lion Square
London WC1R 4SE
Tel: 020 7405 9984
Mobile: 079 7405 9984

 

[Fads]

try these

http://www.astacertification.com/w1/p_labs.htm

fads

 

[Patrick Leonard]

Look up tesla coils. I know there are lots of UK coilers who'd be more than
willing to show off their work.

 

[Tom Bertheau]

Unusual request - hope you can help. There is a TV program being made on
the

(...)

To the best of my knowledge, artificial lightning is alway produced
using a large bank of energy storage capacitors that are generally
connected in parallel while being charged, but switched to a series
configuration to produce the actual lightning bolt itself. (Apparatus
like this is commercially manufactured by a number of firms who supply
the EMP testing field.)

(...)

Harry C.

A picture of an "artificial lightning" using an impulse generator can be
found at
http://www.hvtechnologies.com/news.htm
at the bottom of the page.

Regards,
Tom

 

[Jb]

Don't know if they can help but Brush in Loughborough have a million volt
test bay..