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Re: Very COOL AVI

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> Subscriber: knardell-at-mailhost.accesscom-dot-net Tue Jan 21 22:41:10 1997
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:33:46 -0600
> From: Kevin Nardelle <knardell-at-mailhost.accesscom-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Very COOL AVI
> 
> A
> >Kevin,
> >
> >You're approaching the point where the power level and efficiency of
> >your coil will cause permanent damage to the computer in your room. The
> >MOS devices used in your computer are very sensitive, and unforgiving,
> >to over-voltage. The cables going to your mouse, keyboard, and monitor
> >are acting as antennas and are picking up the RF radiating from your
> >coil and piping it into your machine.
> >
> >The lock-ups you're seeing are a warning. You need to provide more
> >physical separation between the coil and the computer, or any to other
> >sensitive electronic equipment. Experienced coilers never keep any solid
> >state electronic equipment in the same room with an operating Tesla
> >Coil. Simply turning off the computer will _not_ protect it.
> >
> >Safe coilin' and, hopefully, continued computin' to ya!
> >
> >-- Bert --
> >
> >
> >
> Bert,
> 
> I hear ya man, I know where you are comming from as I have already fried a
> 16Meg simm with the coil, wheh the memory prices have fallen. I know the
> computer is at risk and I an trying to figure where I am going to continue
> this coilin', last night I was robed, I WAS going to do it in the detached
> garage BUT they broke in and got the bike. It could have been a coil. I did
> however (JUST BY CHANCE ALONE) manage to scare the SH%$ out the bad guy by
> running my coil suddenly at 2AM, it is located right next to a window and
> the bad guy jumped and knocked over a bench when I powered it up. I had no
> idea I was being ripped off though. I did look but saw nothing. Anyhow, the
> point is: Where an I going to coil now? I can't think of anything but
> pulling everything out into the yard when I wanna play with it.
> Will the humidity screw something up, this New Orleans, home of humidity.
> 
>                                        Regards,
>                                             Kevin Nardelle
> 


Kevin -

  Sorry to hear about your experience with the negative side of our
society. Regarding where to coil, how about placing it in a plastic
enclosure to protect it from the elements and sticking it in the
yard or something. Hang a picture and a sign on it which reads:
"Danger: 1 MILLION ohms. Trespassers will be ionized." or something
like that... ;-)

  I had set up a coil many, many years ago over at a friend's house
for Halloween. We had it in the front yard, and 'planted' in the
ground was a bunch of flourescent tubes. (Safety precautions were in
effect at ALL times...) We placed a few litle signs on the tubes which
stated "Force Field: Trespassers WILL be vaporized." Needless to say,
my friend's house was the only one on the block not to get egged or
pumpkin'ed.

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