Re: secondary question

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Original poster: "CJ Moore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <wizard1234-at-home-dot-com>

I also encountered this in my coil. However, it would only work when I
touched it with both hands.

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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: secondary question


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