Re: secondary question

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/12/01 12:47:48 AM Central Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


>
> So I discharged the caps and reached out and 
> put my hands on the seconday to lift it to look at it and I got a 
> surprizing shock.  I touched it a few more times and got a few more jolts 
> and found the higher up I got the more powerful they were.  After about 
> five jolts they died but after I powered the coil they came back.  I had 
> never heard of this on any pages before (although I may be wrong) so I was 
> surprized.  They weren't terribly powerful but they did fell a lot like 
> static shocks from a Van De Graff generator, but I'm not sure how my coil 
> could produce much static.  



< An admirer of coilers everywhere, 
<    -Will Daniels      


Will, 

There was am extensive discussion about this phenomenon 
on the TCML around a year or so ago. Go to the pupman 
list archives and look up the "Strange Shock" thread. Many 
coilers have encounterd this effect (myself included) and al- 
though there are some ideas (namely the "electret effect") 
as to the cause of this, it remains a poorly explained pheno- 
menon. 

David Rieben