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Re: RE Arcs off the fingers and getting killed in the process...

Hi Robert,

I don't think Dean Ortner, who has been doing the stunt for 25 years, has
anything wrong with him either.  This is very significant!  It shows that
working NEAR tesla coils is probably pretty safe.  If you are still ok
after being ON the thing so often, we spectators probably have nothing to
worry about being near them as far as EMF fields and stuff like that go.
Noise and such is a pretty obvious hazard and I don't think there are too
many long term effects from ozone (??).

It is always had to say if we are crazy because we work with Tesla coils,
or we work with Tesla coils because we were already crazy ;-)))

Cheers,

	Terry



At 05:19 PM 02/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Terry,
>
>You are right that I don't use a wire.  I stand barefoot on a wet, metal 
>plate and the sparks jump from a copper hat and a copper mesh glove.  The 
>only conductor in between is my body.  I have not noticed any health effects 
>from my years of working with the sparks.  The closest thing was some 
>temporary hearing problems before I began wearing hearing protection in the 
>shows.  I have been doing the "arcs from fingers" demo for 17 years now and 
>so far, so good.  It would have been nice if it had made my hair grow back, 
>but that has not happened either.  
>
>On the average, I do the demo twice a day, five days a week, although for 
>some events I have done as many as 12 shows a day, without ill effect.  My 
>doctor keeps watching for cancer, etc. (She is convinced that I am crazy), 
>but so far everything is fine.  
>
>Robert Krampf
>Science Education Company
>http://www.krampf-dot-com
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>
>In a message dated 2/3/00 2:27:45 PM, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
><< I wonder, have you noticed any heath effects from doing this?  I can't
>think of a similar type of electrical exposure...  Brent Turner wires the
>current around himself, as Bill mentions, but I think you and Dean Ortner
>have carried the currents through your bodies for a substantial number of
>years now... >>
>