Re: uv dangers from uncovered gap

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

Hi,

Welders know all about UV sunburns to the skin and eye damage from arc
welding.  However, since a Tesla coil's arc is only say a 4% duty cycle, I
wonder if the hazard is as great.

I don't think I'll test it myself :-))

Corneas don't just fall out much like one's leg just does not fall off...
so "I" don't quite belive that part :-))

Cheers,

	Terry

At 11:20 AM 6/4/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>a few problems...
>
>1) Not much microwave radiation from a spark... 
>2) "fusing the contact to the cornea" turns up in lots of urban legends
>
>Arc blindness/snow blindess IS real (been there done that..painful (like 
>sand in your eyes, but worse)), but I think that fears of cooking corneas 
>are unfounded.
>
>The connection of "fused contacts" and "microwaves" makes me thing urban 
>legend.
>
>On the other hand, if the original source cited a specific instance, with 
>time/date/victim, etc. I'd be more likely to believe it.
>
>Tesla list wrote:
>> 
>> Original poster: "Robin Copini by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><rcopini-at-merlin-dot-net.au>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>>  Just reading through another computer magazine, and found this very
snip...