secondary question

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Original poster: "Will Daniels by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla_is_god-at-37-dot-com>

Hi Everyone,

     This weekend I just finished my first coil (6") and got results of 12"
which was about what I expected due to no tuning, it's incomplete power
supply and bad topload.  Well anyways I was running it at 30 second
intervals making changes each time and after the 3rd run I noticed the
secondary was a bit crooked.  So I discharged the caps and reached out and
put my hands on the seconday to lift it to look at it and I got a
surprizing shock.  I touched it a few more times and got a few more jolts
and found the higher up I got the more powerful they were.  After about
five jolts they died but after I powered the coil they came back.  I had
never heard of this on any pages before (although I may be wrong) so I was
surprized.  They weren't terribly powerful but they did fell a lot like
static shocks from a Van De Graff generator, but I'm not sure how my coil
could produce much static.  The only other guess I can make is that since
the secondary exhibits isotropic (self) capacit!
an!
ce to the ground, it could retain a charge after the power is turned off.
Has anyone else encountered this?  Does anyone know if these shocks are
safe, because after writing this I feel like shocking myself maybe wasn't
the smartest thing I could of done.
      
      An admirer of coilers everywhere,
     -Will Daniels     

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