Re: A challenge

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I should note that there are three known Tesla coiling deaths:
> 
> Henry L Transtrom - Electrocuted while working on a stage and using a large
> Tesla coil. He inadvertently allowed a power arc to go from his body to
> some metal framing that was part of the stage backdrop. He authored the
> following book:
> 
> "ELECTRICITY AT HIGH PRESSURES AND FREQUENCIES"
> Henry L. Transtrom, originally published: 1913, second edition 1921, Joseph
> G. Branch Publishing, Chicago; Reprinted 1990, ISBN 1-55918-054-4, Lindsay
> Publications, Bradley, Illinois, 60915. Paperback, 247pp, Lindsay # 20544.
> 
> 1992 - Graduate student intern working at McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis. A
> Tesla coil was being used to test aircraft parts against the effects of
> lightening. The person got too close to the tank circuit and either bushed
> up against it or a spark left the circuit and struck him. He never regained
> a heartbeat despite excellent CPR and paramedic responses.
> 
> March 29,1998 - An unsupervised 14 month old boy wandered into the poorly
> made AC line wiring of a Tesla coil. He was found some time later but could
> not be resuscitated.
> 
> A master, a bystander, and a small child have been killed by Tesla coils.
> It is always a number one priority to keep that list from growing...
> 
> Terry

	Safety first, for sure.  But this question:  Was it contact with the RF
from the secondary that killed, or was it contact through that arc to
the 60 cycle primary HV?  In other words, is anyone ever known to have
been electrocuted by RF?  Horribly burned, no doubt, but electrocuted?

Ed