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Re: Secondary CURRENT (fwd)



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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:43:02 -0800
From: Open Minded <unknown-at-apc-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Cc: testla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Secondary CURRENT (fwd)

Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:14:31 -0700
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: testla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: Re: Secondary CURRENT
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> Subscriber: robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org Thu Feb 20 22:50:16 1997
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:04:08 GMT
> From: Robert Michaels <robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org>
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: Re: Secondary CURRENT
> 
> T>From: Stan <sgd1-at-acpub.duke.edu>
> T>Subject: Re: Secondary CURRENT
> 
> T>Wow, thanks for the incredibly detailed explanation.  I had always
> T>wondered about terminal amperage because I have read in a few
> T>(albiet older) books that one could directly touch the top of a
> T>properly-tuned coil.  It said that output current is relatively low and
> T>the RF current tends to flow over the surface of the skin, not through
> T>the muscles, nerves, etc.  Not that I'd ever try it, but I always
> [ ... ]
> 
>         Your post reminds me of some spectacular demonstrations
>         conducted by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.  The
>         last of these which I recall occurred some 25 years ago.
> 
>         The Institute had a medium-sized theatrical coil, secondary
>         about 3 x 5 ft.  It must have been tube-powered because it
>         was dead silent save the (relatively quiet) discharges.
>         This coil had a flat-plat as terminus.
> 
>         In a typical demo, a large metal bowl was first placed on the
>         flat plate and the coil energized.  Arrogant blue-white
>         streamers 3-4 ft. long danced around the rim of the bowl
>         and clawed their way into the atmosphere.
> 
>         Next, the bowl was removed and a man stood barefoot (but
>         otherwise fully clothed) atop the flat plate.  When the
>         coil was again energized, he was enveloped in a hissing,
>         sizzling brush discharge.
> 
>         The power was cut and he was handed a two-by-four the bottom
>         foot or so of which had been wrapped in foil.  This was held
>         overhead, vertically, with both hands.  The power was again
>         applied.  A discharge worked its way up from the foil and
>         along the two-by-four.  After a few moments the wood began
>         to first smoke and then ignite.
>                                 - - - - - - -
>         On one occasion I was privileged to talk to the demonstrator
>         after the show and learned a few tricks of the trade.  For
>         one, it's essential not to have any metal about one's person,
>         the fly of one's trousers included.  For another, a heavy
>         pencil line (invisible to the audience) had been drawn along
>         the length of the two-by-four.
>                                 - - - - - - -
>         Ever since, I've wanted to try this myself: stand on the top
>         of an operating coil.   Nude.  With another person.  Of the
>         opposite sex.  Unfortunately I've never had the equipment,
>         inclination (i.e. guts), opportunity, and person of the
>         opposite sex (with the guts) all together at the same place and
>         time.   Alas.
>                                 Yours for whole-body discharges,
> 
>                                 Robert Michaels


Robert -

  Check out some of my pic's at:

http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/electrical/tesla/pictures/turner

Look at the 'brent_xx.jpg' series of photos. I can be seen
sitting on top of an insulated platform connected to my larger
coil system tossing sparks off metal rods, my finger tips, etc.

- Brent (bturner-at-apc-dot-net)