Subject: Re: Neon murder Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:31:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com Aaron: Do you have a safety gap directly across the transformer? Opening the regular spark gap "too wide" is the easiest way to "smoke" (short out with over voltage) a transformer. Ed