Re: Zapping Ravers

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Original poster: "torlin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <torlin-at-ghostmail-dot-net>

Perhaps with a metal cage around the approach and the 
ladder inside the coil or likewise protected so that 
nothing can get in to the people, and no idiots want to 
reach outside of the cage?  Perhaps chicken wire or window 
screening?  But you would think that the ladder would also 
act as a huge ground focus, and keep the coil from running 
into the free air.  It would just be a big arc, and would 
eventually the ladder would get HOT, wouldn't it??

My ideas on the subject.

Chris

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:27:20 -0700
  "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
>Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>  From LA Times Magazine, January 6 2002:
>
>"At the 1998 installment of... Burning Man, Klinge 
>marvelled at the 
>fireworks produced by a 17-foot-tall coil sculpture and 
>knew he had to 
>build his own. In 1998, he completed a 7-foot-tall, 
>5,500-watt unit 
>generating 6-foot-long arcs. He has appeared with his 
>creation at parties 
>and festivals such as the Electric Daisy Carnival rave 
>event.... He's also 
>collaborating with Tesla coil performance artist Austin 
>Richards of Santa 
>Barbara (a.k.a. "Dr. MegaVolt") on a two-story, 
>120,000-watt sculpture 
>equipped with a ladder for people to ascend while the 
>coil is firing."
>
>Wouldn't the last part - hopefully a misquote - be a 
>serious misreading of 
>Faraday's law?
>Sooner or later someone's going to bug-zap a raver.
>
>
>

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