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Re: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Tesla coils (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:16:46 +1200
From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Tesla coils (fwd)
Hi David,
Thanks for a good laugh :)
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 21:53:33 -0500
> From: David Dean <deano-at-corridor-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Tesla coils (fwd)
<snip>
> for a few seconds. Silence. It stayed quiet for a week. When the
> noise started up again, I caught him coming home one day and ask
> "innocently" if he had been on vacation or something because I had
> not heard his stereo for a while. He said "You know it's the
> darndest thing. The stereo just went dead all of a sudden in the
> middle of the night. So the next day I took it to the store and
> they checked it out. They said it must have been hit by lightening
> because every single solid state component in it was burned out." I
> would have to say that the end of the coil was about two feet away
> from the stereo which was enclosed in a plastic box. I really can't
> tell you much more about it, all of the parts I used to build that
> coil are long dead or have been recycled. Just that it is possible
> to transmit energy over some distance through walls without wires
> and no sparks.
I note that his stereo would have had difficulty passing the new EMC
standards. This is the most useful experiment I've ever heard of.
Malcolm