RE: Hood Ornament

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Original poster: "Pete Komen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>

Hello Jake,

Very bad idea.  Someone walks by and just touches or leans against your car
(not an unusual action nor unexpected), jumps because of the sudden shock,
and you are liable (morally and probably legally) for any injury sustained.
Imagine if it is an old woman or man.  How about the slob who smacks the
side of your car with the door and promptly gets a shock when putting his
foot on the ground?  You are liable to find your car smashed up if he can
figure what zapped him.  I'd be tempted to smash the car myself if I was
casually zapped (I wouldn't do it, but I would call the police).

It is probably illegal.

Pete Komen



-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:00 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Hood Ornament

Original poster: "Jake Draper by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com>

Would it be illegal to use that as a theft deterrent*? lol :)
    -Jake D.
    cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com
    http://taradev.cjb-dot-net


*The moderator will jump in "here" this time ;-)  Uses of a Tesla coil such
as a legal theft deterrent are actually on topic (who makes up these rules
anyway :-)).  However, legalities of stuff sometimes gets to be really
boring and "I" get tired of them...  Things such as "How can I wire up my
Tesla coil to kill my mother-in-law?" are obviously off-topic since they
are asking for advice on how to commit serious crimes...  Maybe I'll try a
little proactive moderation here :-)) - Terry




-------Original Message-------

From: Tesla list
Date: Friday, July 20, 2001 03:20:38 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Hood Ornament

Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Oh! Jonathon brings up a good point! While the rest of the metal on the car
may make somewhat of a ground plane, the whole car could get a significant
RF
potential to ground! If the coil were running and you put your foot outside
on
the ground, you make get a big surprise =:O Like wise for someone coming up
and touching the car body...

There may be some unknown "bleeding edge" "details" to be discovered with
this. Wonder how police radar would like it ;-)

Cheers,

Terry

At 03:44 PM 7/20/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
> For a Ground, you could have a wire, or small chain dragging on the
ground.
> My grampa had a shocker made out of a model-T ignition coil, and did that
for
>
> a ground.
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon