kiting in hail???

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Originally posted by choicey
Does anyone know what’s really going on here? DR Lozza?

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Maybe you're just an electric kiter choicey? Freaky stuff .. maybe the old power station nearby has still got some life in it?

Although you can not see it there is electricity in the air, your kite becomes statically charged so the longer you lift off the ground for the more static builds up in your kite and when you touch back down the larger the shock. Well thats my guess anyway, seems reasonable.

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Originally posted by Charl dv

the lines are nylon and are no good for conducting

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Unless there wet, then they will.

But nylon also apparently conducts electricity at high voltages.... Whats the potential difference between a storm cloud and the earth, several million volts i believe...

Good luck with that theory.

Possibly, I think you should try it out at the next available opportunity. Make sure someone is videoing it too...

I can't believe it! this is truly shocking!!

www.abc.net.au/

Here it is.

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Originally posted by choicey

So would I get static shocks if, I had no kite and was wearing a wettie and a nylon jacket. Then jump up and down on the beach in a hail storm?

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probably not but it sure would look funny

Thanks all for your input, sound's like we may have to get Myth Busters on the job. I did get the "feeling" at the time that the shocks were increasing in strength and there may be a big belt on the way

You're kite and lines are basically an aircraft, they move thu the air and as the air passes over them negative ions in the air build up on the kite and generally this would happen more if you're travelling in one direction, the potential difference as explained before is the difference in the amount of static build up on the kite and the static build up on you (when not earthed) being on water and it hailing would change things, the hail would not be electrically conductive, but lowering the temperature of the kite would make it more electrically conductive, allowing for a bigger charge.

ive got a whole book on aircraft electrics and ****e like that when i used to work on planes... eg, when Helis winch people off boats in newcastle or out of the water, they have to let the rope touche the ground/water first as it builds up a static charge from the rotors moving thru the air-->>which then goes into you...