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Re: Sensitive Equipment - =)



Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Hi Eric, Terry, All Geek,

> Ground the coil with a ground rod and run it from a separate circuit from
the
> computer and you will be safe.  If you can turn the PC off it's even
better.
> The danger is small in any case but if the PC does get bit, it will be
"bad".

Umm.... well... this isnt strictly true. PCs are protected by input line
filters and a big metal faraday case cage... and as the geek group have
shown the only effect that direct streamer hits from a coil have on a PC is
a reeboot :)

Best regards,
Jason