RE: NON-static shocks from unpowered secondary?

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Original poster: "Stolz, Mark by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mark.Stolz-at-st-systems-dot-com>

Gary, All

Unless of course the secondary is self resonant or using the body to form a
LC circuit, al beit a small possibility.

Mark Stolz
Houston, TX

>Gary concludes:
>
>Ahh, I see!  A static DC charge is the only possible source of energy
that
>could persist for a time span of seconds after turning off the power.  
>There is
>no mechanism to keep an AC oscillation alive for so long.  If the
ground
>connection to the base of the coil is disconnected after the coil is
turned
>off, then the coil and top load could become charged to a DC static 
>potential
>relative to ground from the static charge that accumulated on the
surface 
>of
>the secondary.
>
>
>
>Regards, Gary Lau
>
>MA, USA