You might not like it, but this is the peak conductivity
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is still the path of least resistance but it created it itself. It ionizes the air creating a channel for it and then makes the leap, creating a conductive conduit of plasma/ions, as air currents move that around the path of least resistance can get progressively more nuts because there’s still a path through the ionized air.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dielectric breakdown, literally carving its own path of least resistance through the air.