Garage door

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• Subject: Garage door
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• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:32:26 -0500
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From: 	Gary Lau[SMTP:lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com]
Sent: 	Monday, September 22, 1997 8:06 AM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re. Garage door

>Does anyone have any experience operating a tesla coil around a
>automatic garage door opener? I have just completed a new garage and
>plan on moving all of my coiling equipment into it. I wonder if anyone
>has any experience with a coil screwing up the electronics in the door?
>And is there anyway I could protect it?

I operate my (smallish by some standards, 15kV/30ma xfmr) TC in my
garage.  The garage has a low 7 ft ceiling and the opener door track and
control cables pass directly above the TC.  The opener box is ~10 ft
from the TC.  Each time I plan to run the TC, I unplug the opener,
disconnect the control cables from the opener, and tuck the dangling wire
antenna from the opener into the box.  The TV cable also passes through
the garage, so I disconnect that too.  So far, so good!

Gary Lau
Waltham, MA

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