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Re: Has anyone tried the almost ridiculous?
Greetings.
>Has anyone built a coil large enough, either strong enough to hold your
>weight, or perhaps an insulated platform connected to the secondary,
>where you are effectively sitting ontop of the coil? Hence letting the
>sparks fly from your body or any sharp objects you may have on you?
Yes - one Nikola Tesla according to Cheney's biography.
This has Tesla standing on a platform on which he has just electrocuted a small
animal, "with 2 million volts running through his body his silhouette sharply
defined
by a halo of electricity formed by myriad tongues of flame darting from
every part of his body. "
(Margaret Cheney: Tesla Man out of time, page 4)
>This is an idea I would like to try out, hopefully if my coil runs at a
>reasonably hi-frequency when complete...
Good luck - I understand there is a popular American variation
that uses a chair!
Alan Sharp (UK)