Re: COOL STUFF YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR COIL!

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Original poster: "brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com>

I agree, my twin brother used to test all my hi voltage stuff with his
finger UNTIL one day he got onto a Ford Hi energy ignition coil fooling
around.The current of that coil stopped his heart. IF i had not had E.M.T.
training and not been there seconds after he would have died in 4 minutes
PERIOD! Yea I know he's fingered an orbit before. but He DOESN'T touch test
hi voltage anymore........cul brian

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Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: RE: COOL STUFF YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR COIL!


> Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
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> Some folks are determined to do this sort of thing tho. I remember when I
> was but the one thing that changed my mind is the idea of possibly getting
> RF burns off of it. I used to draw sparks to a pair of keys from a TC that
> threw 12 inch sparks, and then I had a video taken of it. I would suggest
> you make a rod with a grounded knob on the end to draw off the sparks and
> not draw sparks to yourself but If you are determined to do this sort of
> thing, stand on something a LOT higher than a milk crate and film it. The
> video can serve to quell the fears of a landlady if you live in an
> apartment. Better yet, just get a video of someone doing this off the
> internet.
>
>
> I would be selective in who you show it to. You don't want to get someone
> interested in the hobby only to be like me, believing all the
misinformation
> that taking sparks to yourself is 100% safe.
>
> Here are some dangers of what you are doing. The concept of drawing sparks
> to yourself is highly complex. I bet a book could be written on the
subject
> and few if any can think of them all.
>
> 1. RF burns. Imagine being cooked like a chicken in the microwave, but the
> burns are not occurring at the surface of the skin where the nerves
endings
> are but deep in your flesh where you cannot feel it.
>
> 2. Tissue burns from current. The fact that you cannot feel the
electricity
> very much is because of it's high frequency. Just like ultra violet light
> that you cannot see, can burn your skin, high frequency current may not be
> felt by the nerves but can still burn you.
>
> 3. Sparks are like conductive wires, and these wires can jump to other
wires
> that may be under the carpet or under the milk crate, in the cieling and
the
> walls and these wires can be charged with 60 cycle high amperage lines.
One
> of these sparks can jump from you, to these wires right through the
> insulation like it wasn't even there and make you part of a shortcut to
> ground for this current which you will feel.
>
> 4. High frequency electricity does not always take the shortest path to
> ground. Air currents and other things can make the path of least
resistance
> be the long way around. Just like finding out the shortest bike ride to an
> area has the steepest hills. This could fool you taking the LONG path to a
> hot wire.
>
> 5. Strikes from the primary to the secondary, could complete a circuit
that
> feeds tens of amps into your secondary and yourself.
>
> Don't feel embarrassed about not knowing these things. From a young age,
we
> are taught to take the word of people who are authorites on matters. When
> children, we are taught by teachers and little do we know that often what
is
> taught is incorrect. Companies and authors that seem to be "Authorites" in
> the subject of tesla coils continue to make claims of the skin effect, and
> the so called safety of tesla coils and only someone who belongs on a
> psychic hotline can know the difference. Only when you start communicating
> with people here do you hear of those who have been killed instantly by
one
> mistake with a tesla coil.
>
> It also protects your hobby. The media love to sensationalize danger and
it
> doesn't take much to move legislators to strart making laws banning
> posession of things that the general public fear and do not understand.
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