Re: secondary question

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

The coil former plus the wire and the air inside the coil form may create a
capacitor that holds the charge until an unsuspecting coiler walks up and
touches it. That theory also might explain why some coils give bigger or
smaller shocks than others depending on what they are wound on.
    -Jake D.
    <mailto:Cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com>Cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com
    http://taradev.cjb-dot-net 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: <mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>Tesla list
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 05:21:30 PM
To: <mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: secondary question
 
Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/12/01 12:47:48 AM Central Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


>
> 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. 



< An admirer of coilers everywhere, 
< -Will Daniels 


Will, 

There was am extensive discussion about this phenomenon 
on the TCML around a year or so ago. Go to the pupman 
list archives and look up the "Strange Shock" thread. Many 
coilers have encounterd this effect (myself included) and al- 
though there are some ideas (namely the "electret effect") 
as to the cause of this, it remains a poorly explained pheno- 
menon. 

David Rieben 


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