Re: oops

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• Subject: Re: oops
• From: "Edward Wingate" <ewing7-at-rochester.rr-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:21:09 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Tesla List wrote:

Terry, Brad,

IMHO it was not a coincidence! An untuned Tesla coil with no EMI  filters
between
the line and the Tesla coil power supply can EASILY produce enough kickback to
send almost any solid state device into the great beyond, and the
microprocessor
in a microwave oven display qualifies as a fairly sensitive device that
will not
withstand such an assault.

Brad, do you have EMI filters on the line into the power supply?

Ed Wingate RATCB

> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>
> "I" would guess coincidence.  Most "coil kills" are when the Tesla coil is
> shooting big streamers to the electrical outlets and phone wires ;-))
> Unless your coil was doing some serious arcing, the microwave probably just
> volunteered it's transformer to your coiling all by itself...  There may
> have been AC line spikes, but microwaves and all are pretty tolerant of that.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry

>
> At 08:32 PM 03/22/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >I started my new coil for the first time the other night and sadly to
> >say i did not get it going, possibly because i had no time to tune it.
> >I was running it in the garage and someone was running the microwave in
> >the kitchen.  The microwave suddenly stopped working, ie. no display, no
> >nothing.  I was wondering if this is because of the tesla or just a
> >coincidence.
> >
> >thanks
> >brad
> >

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