Re: Forget the Faraday Cage - Ventilate First ! ! ! !

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

Hi Dan,

I think you didn't see the word PACEMAKER.  I read the owners manual for my
fathers, and since then I have not run coils while my father is in the
house.  A pacemaker can be messed up by a airport magnetometer, of which my
father has to carry a card, so he does not have to go thru it.  If that
could potentially kill my father, what do you think a Tesla coil could do to
him.  I think ventilation is a little lower priority.

David E Weiss


 > Forget the Faraday cage.  That is the LEAST of your problems.
 > Your biggest problem is going to be how to properly ventilate the area.
 > This in my
 > opinion is your biggest issue.  I can run my 15kV/60mA coil for about a
 > minute and the entire
 > house is filled hazardous fumes.  Very hazardous levels of ozone and other
 > Nitrogen based compounds
 > are created even during very short runs.  It ran my coil twice in my
 > basement (for less than a few minutes)
 > before finally realizing the gases created were much too strong to deal
 > with.
 >
 >
 > Dan
 >