Re: CGA Monitor Flyback ???

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• Subject: Re: CGA Monitor Flyback ???
• From: "Mike Nolley" <mnolley-at-mail.slc.edu> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:54:09 -0700
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Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "Jan Florian Wagner" <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>
>
> Now, this get's maybe a bit OT from Tesla coils, but if in all those
> plasma coil driver schematics and "solid state TC with TV flyback", the
> flyback really runs at so low frequency, is it safe/painless at all to
> touch the TV flyback driven plasma globe? I had the impression the
> commercial globes operate at RF - and could be touched due to "skin
> effect" i.e. nerves not responding.

    When I experimented with my Information Unlimited flyback driver back in
9th grade, it gave me pretty impressive RF burns.  Not a good idea.  The
average overall current is high enough to burn with direct contact.  This
doesn't happen when the same power supply is connected to a plasma globe, for
reasons that I'm not entirely clear about.
                --Mike

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