Re: sec coil zap ouch!

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>

 > 2.
 > When I was braking down the coil at the end of the night I was zapped by
my
 > sec coil twice.  It was obviously residual capacitance. Why did this
 > happen? When I turn the coil off the stray capacitance should flow to
 > ground. Shouldn't it?    I hate getting whacked!
 >
 > Read you later
 > Josh

Hi Josh,

One trick to stop getting zapped is keep one hand on the torrid and wipe the
secondary with the other.  That will get rid of the static buildup on the
secondary.

David E Weiss