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:
> 
> Hi Ed...
> 
> a few years ago I put up my coil for Holloween in the back yard and on
> each side of the toroid I placed pumkins about 4 feet away on metal
> poles ( to attract the streamers) anywayyy...   the pumkins recieved
> hundreds of hits that night ... the following morning when I was
> cleaning up, I took a close look at the pumkins and noticed multiple
> "pock" marks on the skin of the pumkins ( dark brown soft indentations
> about 1/8" dia) I pulled out the pocket knife and carved away at the
> pumkin...  finding channels in the underlying "flesh"  ( kinda think the
> path of the streamers took the route of the "veins" in the flesh)  the
> channels were softer than the surrounding material...
> 
> another side note...   during summer months I have the pool set up so
> when I run my coil it is closer to the tree...  which gets hit on
> occasion, the branch which does get hit is dying ( mostly dead at this
> point... were talking about a branch 3" in dia) ...    obviously
> streamers do cause severe damage to living things ....
> 
> Scot D

	I suspect the effects you are reporting are caused by heating, not
electrocution.  The things at the end of those streamers get hot really
fast!

Ed