Re: Battle Damage Assessment

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• Subject: Re: Battle Damage Assessment
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 03:35:47 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Search the web for Modicon (I think), an early pioneer in factory
automation controllers (the predecessors of today's PLCs). Their web site
has an interesting discussion of design decisions and their novel test
technique (later adapted for a sales demo) using a tesla coil arcing to the
boards inside the cabinet.



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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Battle Damage Assessment
> Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 12:09 PM
> 
> Original Poster: NickandSim-at-aol-dot-com 
> 
> Hi Ross,
>              I have zapped all manner of electronic goods to see
prescisely 
> what is killed by a TC this is my report so far:
> 
> >Sega MegaDrive Cartridge 
> 30 seconds from small 200kV coil - working fine
> 1min from same coil - working fine
> 15 seconds from 800kV coil - working fine - slight charring of label
> 30 seconds from same coil -working fine - marked entry holoe through case
of 
> arc
> 1min from same coil - dead - the label caught fire
> 
> >Calculator
> 15 seconds from 800kV coil - memory scrambled - otherwise working fine
> 30 seconds from same coil - Slight bubbling of plastic - otherwise fine
> 1min from same coil - Kaput - starting to go crinkly around edges ;-)
> 
> >Small transistor radio
> 15 seconds from 800kV coil - Dead
> Hope this helps
> 
> Pyro-ing in sunny Reading
> Nick Field
> 
> 

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