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Re: Coil ideas for experiments
*grin* After having broken, burned, poked, electrocuted, mashed,
jabbed,etc... almost every extremity and a lot of non-extremeties,
I've learned the hard way that even "trivial" things can really
make your day horrible. I got 1 pair of eyes, and my eyesight is
bad enough already :) As Murphy can prove, (and I can attest to,
got scars!), it's the least likely and least suspected thing that
will get you. :) Anywho, the laser idea isn't something *I'd*
try, lack of money mostly, but it is an interesting idea :) Laters
Sundog - hmmm.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Coil ideas for experiments
>Original Poster: ANTarchimedes-at-aol-dot-com
>
>In a message dated 4/14/2000 9:55:13 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
><< A non-technical viewpoint here, but if the laser is ionizing
the sparkgap,
> there will be a "beam" of ionized air between the laser and the
sparkgap.
> The caps will want to short across the sparkgap, yes, but would
there be a
> chance of the spark crawling back the laser to it's case (which
would be
> grounded, and probably have a surface near the beam? I think
that would be
> less of a concern than reflected UV. A few seconds for paper,
that means
> even less time for your eyes. Hmmm.... >>
>
>
>Yes, but if the mirrors and other optic components of the laser
were far
>enough from the power source, it would keep the laser safe. As
for the
>ultraviolet light, frankly, I'm disappointed in you. You work
with devices
>using thousand of volts... and you're worried about UV light...
well, here's
>my solution, put a concave mirror at the end of the beam to split
it apart.
>Of course, in a real (non-experimental) setting, we would be
aiming it at
>something. In this case, we would need something protective.
>
>
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