Re: Mega-Sized Secondaries

["Garry F." <garryfre-at-xxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

I agree with that but I also note that there often comes a point where
things become so routine, that some become over confident and used to what
you are doing that it's easy to forget things one were once careful of.

Take my driving habits. I think I was a safer driver during the first few
years than I am now because my mind tends to wonder and driving becomes
automatic. I would prefer that my mind NOT wonder, but it seems to have the
say over my will as to what it's going to do. Similar with coiling. I think
working with any tools or equipment that can potentially do harm is never
safe, that sooner or later, being imperfect, each and every one of us would
get hurt. It's just a matter of time.

An example is my latest trip to the hospital. I was very frustrated trying
to find some object that was right in front of my face, that I slammed a
drawer shut as hard as I could. I used to have this tendancy to get my
fingers in the way, but I thought I had grown past that about 20 years ago,
but this day, I got two fingers caught in the drawer and the drawer
literally crushed the flesh off the two fingers. I may lose one of my
fingers as a result.

So, yep, safety is inversely proportional, but never underestimate the
potential for that safety to become carelesslessness when you least expect
it and to come up and bite you in the butt.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Mega-Sized Secondaries


> Original poster: Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 11/5/00 10:14:17 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
> << i think that for a beginner to jump in, feet first, and build a pig
powered
>  system, they would loose the benefit of "the learning curve", i mean,
with
>  this system, and no prior experience, the output could be so
disappointing
>  due to lack of tuning skills, that a coiler could be turned off by the
cost
>  over satisfaction formula. >>
>
>
> Marc, Al, all,
>
> Another problem with a beginner "jumping in feet first" to build a
> pig powered system is the shear DANGER of it. I think there is a
> personal experience over personal danger factor that a beginning
> coiler should consider before leaping into a high powered system.
> A neon sign xfmr can knock the snot out of ya, but a pole pig can
> knock the LIFE out of you! I think all of us coilers go thru a learning
> curve that generally renders it really unsafe for a beginner to tackle a
> piggy. I got zapped a couple of times in my early days of coiling but
> thankfully, the power levels were small (OBIT). If I had been messing
> with a pig in those days, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you
> guys right now! As the experience/danger factor dictates, one is never
> completely free of the danger denominator when working with high
> voltages, but the more available experience one has, the lesser the
> danger becomes in proportion. Or, to put a little differently, personal
> experience is inversely proportionate to personal danger. Just MHO.
>
> Keeping 'em Sparkin' in Memphis,
> David Rieben
>
>
>