Re: SSTC Dangers - E Fields / Radiation

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >  > Also, be careful doing the lightbulb trick b/c my friend was
 >  > messing around
 >  > and got a NASTY burn that appeared to have chared the tip of
 >  > his thumb!
 >  >
 >  > Matt
 >  >
 >
 > Forget about the lightbulb.  I got the same burn adjusting the knob of an
 > audio oscillator 5 feet away from my SSTC!!!
 >
 > Dan

	That's because YOU were capacitively-coupled to the coil and the knob
was effectively grounded.

Ed