Re: Halloween Coiling

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>


You might also consider donating your coil and operational talents to a
large local "Haunted House" project working for some charity.  In this way
the police won't bother you, you will be helping out the charity, and be
guaranteed a large audience for your "spook sparks".  It's really a win-win
situation for everyone.

We do this every year as they run a local haunted house and donate some of
the money to the heart foundation.  The kids love the big sparks and we keep
the sparks very small (under 1 ft) for the very little children so they
don't get scared.  A chicken wire fence between the coil and the people
passing along through the haunted house insures safetly.

Dr. Resonance




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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: Halloween Coiling


> Original poster: "Winston Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This Halloween, I'd like to mount my 2kVA coil on the roof above my
> front porch.  I plan to use a counterpoise of chicken wire, which would
> be connected to a "real" RF ground.  I plan also to extend the
> counterpoise out a little way from the roof, over the walkway, to catch
> any errant streamers that might come close to people.
>
> I'd like some input from people who have "been there, done that", since
> I obviously don't want to do something dangerous/stupid.  The PSU would
> be on the roof as well, totally out of reach.
>
> Also, I live in the Los Angeles area, which as many of you know is a
> "paranoid" city, obsessed with anything that has the capacity to do any
> harm to anything (except cars ;-)).  I don't want the police at my
> house.  Can anyone advise me here??
>
> Thanks,
> Winston K.
>
> PS-I normally do an elaborate Halloween display, and am looking to "kick
> it up a notch".  It's quite electrically intensive, since I have
> control/power wire running to various motorized/lighted equipment.  This
> would be the first year that high voltage would enter the picture.
>
>