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> > Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
>
> From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com Mon Dec 9 21:21:13 1996
> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:04:27 -0800
> From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Cc: caydsi-at-aol-dot-com
> Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics (fwd)
>
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> Finally, all coilers worth there salt have experienced the hard shock
> which occurs just outside the spark radius of of small systems when
> holding a metallic object. As the sparks just lap at the tip of the
> object, each hit yields a sharp shock. You were at a DC potential
> (charged up isotropically via emitted ions) while not in contact with the
> spark which found its ground path back through the coil. (you were
> discharged) As you approch the terminal and the discharge is continuous,
> all sensation of shock ceases as you are now part of the resonant circuit
> via a plasma connection and the RF passes harmlessly over the skin. You
> are no longer isolated as a capacity and can't accept a DC charge via the
> "ion bridge".
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> Richard Hull, TCBOR
I have been puzzled by this phenomenon while playing with a small coil. A
copper pipe brought close to the toroid would produce a shock in some
instances and no sensation in others.
Its like Wonderland 'things just get curiouser and curiouser'
D. Huffman