Re: Secondary Coil nips

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Hi Brian,

I've also noticed static electricity effects on and
around my tesla coils.  I've been zapped by
secondaries some time after removing power--just a
little static "snap", but it got my attention.  I've
also noticed static crackle on my arm hair while
operating my 6" coil from a safe distance.  The air
was thick with Ozone at the time.  Perhaps ionized air
is the vehicle for this long-range static charge?

Greg
www.angelfire-dot-com/ga3/tesla

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Brian Foley"
> <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com> 
> 
> Hi Coilers, I started to tune my 3 1/2 coil up.
> running a 9kv by 60 ma sparks
> were only 8 inches. added one more turn to primary
> and took two wearever
> aluminum fry pans taped together for a toroid the
> sparks grew to 14 inches. No
> corona from the top of secondary.. Sparks looked
> like many pictures on the net
> and had a nice burapp sound. I removed the short
> coil and noticed a few small
> shocks from the coil. that coil up until now has
> never bit me! My son and i
> repeated the shock thing several times to be sure
> getting nipped each time and
> once after running the tall coil with the short coil
> near but not connected i
> got nipped by the small coil once again. So detuned
> back to where i used to
> have 8 inch sparks and the coil now doesnt bite.
> Hmmm after tuning up I know
> the level of static electricity was much higher,i
> could feel it in my face and
> the hair on my arms.lighting a 12 inch flourescent
> lamp at 4 feet from the coil
> was easy. cul brian
> 
> 


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