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Re: Micro coil earthing



Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

I'm going to have to agree that the outputs do shock. I'm not sure where the 
idea came from that high frequency isn't felt, my coil has pretty high 
frequency for a TC and the sparks can be felt quite well. 

In a message dated 4/29/01 7:17:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> Yes, i have. I'm a fourteen year old and i built a TC out of scratch. It is 
> power by a 10kV 23ma OBIT and it has a 2 3/4" by 12" secondary. My first 
> ground was an 8" long wood spike driven in the ground. I then took a four 
> foot copper rod and sank that. The output increased by 2". 
> So now i am getting a total of 5" sparks off this coil to a grounded rod. I 
> don't know what frequency it resonates, but it hurts like the devil when 
> you 
> touch it. I also noticed that the streamers took on a more opaque 
> appearance 
> rather than the skinny, flashy sparks that i got before. Hey, if any one 
> has 
> an old NST out there i welcome donations- OBITS suck! 
>
>