Re: NON-static shocks from unpowered secondary?

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Original poster: "Chris by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chris-at-atomic-pc-dot-com>

Patrick and list members,

When this happened to me I thought it was so weird that I wasn't going to 
mention it to the list-- since I could find no ready explanation, I thought 
maybe I should dismiss it as my "imagination"! (but it sure did hurt, and 
it made me jump back!!)

It's happened to me at least 2 or 3 times- each with no connection to the 
capacitor bank, and unpowered.  One time I got a nasty shock from an auto 
ignition coil I was experimenting with- after it had been disconnected from 
everything else.  Unfortunately I don't have a meter that will read in the 
multi-KV range, AC or DC.  It sure doesn't feel like an ordinary 
winter-time static shock.

-Chris

At 01:39 AM 2/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Patrick Leonard by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <transactoid-at-rogers-dot-com>
>Now, I've read the discussions on people receiving static shocks from their
>unpowered secondaries, but the shocks I've got feel *nothing* like static
>shocks. I feel nothing when touching the sides of the coil*, but when I touch
>either end terminal of the coil, I get a very sharp, tingling, *painful* 
>shock.
>Again, it feels *nothing* like a static shock, there's no "hair raising" 
>Van De
>Graaf feel, no loud "pop".......it feels exactly like an AC shock. It's a
>pulsating, piercing kind of pain. There is no visible spark.
>