Re: Solid State Tesla Coil - Mysterious Electrical Shocks

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Dan,

More likely it's the large E-field capacitively coupling to the
capacitance of your body. The shocks you feel are probably due to
displacement currents flowing from your body to the grounded control
panel. 

BTW, while you may not feel any shocks, you may find that you get little
pinprick burns on your fingertips if you just barely touch any nearby
grounded or ungrounded metal objects when you're standing in the E-field
from a nearby good sized SSTC or VTTC. Same phenomena.

Best regards,

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
"Electromagically" Shrunken Coins!
http://www.teslamania-dot-com 

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
> 
> I was operating my larger Solid State Tesla Coil last night and as I had one
> hand on my control box turning the unit on and off, I experienced a rather
> nasty tingling shock on my fingers.  I made checks on the control box and
> everything is grounded and terminated correctly.
> 
> Could this be a result of the large EM fields affecting the mettalic nature
> of the control box???
> 
> Thanks
> Dan