RE: I just got to say one thing...

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Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I don't know what you have present on the primary
side. Perhaps it is just that there is a higher power
level present there. If it were a NST or MOT, you'd
have a 60Hz AC component that would find a path
through the plasma created by the much higher voltage
and frequency resonance.

I think what you are feeling from the secondary is the
pops each time a spark hits your finger and vaporizes
a small amount of dead skin and moisture. When you get
closer, a constant arc forms and it is a continuous
process rather than separate "hits".

Steve Greenfield

> At 11:25 PM 1/18/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >HV Tickles. I have been tuning my coil, and just as
> my finger is 2" away
> >from it, white sparks fire to my finger. It REALLY
> tickles! I don't feel a
> >thing when my finger is at 1" from it, as a purple
> arc develops then, and
> as
> >you all know - its high frequency. I reckon its
> weird how the white sparks
> >from the tesla coil only tickle, yet the white
> spark from the primary,
> lower
> >voltage side make you scream, jump, or convulse. I
> find that quite weird in
> >a way.
> >
> 
> 
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