Re: tesla coils in entertainment

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

Hi Frank,

It should not damage them if care was taken.  Noise pickup may be a
terrible problem.  Amplifying the already noisy coil through a 5000W PA
system may be messy :-))  But I would not think you would run the coil at
the same time the band plays due to regular noise anyway.  If you did, I
assume the noise in the amps would be welcome.

If the coil were too big or too close, the player's body would pickup
E-fields like Ted's original metal fence did and the players would get
little shocks of the grounded metal on the instruments.  Easily fixed by
getting far away.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 06:55 PM 10/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hey all
>
>       Wouldnt the em feild of the coil damage the amps and guitars by 
>inducing charges on then?
>
>                                                             Frank
>