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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