Re: Mad experiment

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Viktor,

The old stage act is indeed very real and very dangerous.  One of the three
people known to have been killed by tesla coils died in this way.  He was
very expert at it but he died anyway...:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/Deaths.txt

There are a few people that still do this stunt at the professional level
but they take extreme precautions. Like walking on the wings of a flying
airplane, you can't make a mistake...  See the safety data at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Safety/safety.htm

If you go to

http://www.pupman-dot-com/htsearch.html

And search for "arcs off the fingers", you will pull up many posts about
this subject in the old thread "Arcs off the fingers and getting killed in
the process...".  I think those posts covered just about everything.

http://www.pupman-dot-com/listarchives/2000/February/msg00053.html

Cheers,

	Terry


At 02:26 PM 7/29/2001 +0400, you wrote:
>In Internet I many times saw photos with such content. The man costs(stands) 
>on an isolated support,
>to it(him) the reel of a Tesla and from fingers of this man in air strewed 
>streamers is connected.
>And it not a double exposure. I would like to iterate such mad experiment... 
>It is clear, that the
>responsibility for it I take on myself. From here questions. Whether the 
>Tesla coil with such parameters
>will approach for these purposes: power 450W, target voltage about 850KV, 
>resonant frequency about 100Khz?
>The arcs from such coil have length about 25см. From what, and what height 
>it is desirable to make an isolated
>support? How to make, that the streamers went only from fingers? Where it is 
>necessary to connect the reel
>(to hands, legs?)? Whether there is an odds, what clothes on me?
>
>Somebody in this dispatch did(made) similar (connection to itself flyback it 
>is not considered)?
>
>Once again I underline: the responsibility I take on myself and perfectly I 
>realize danger of this experiment.
>
>
>  
>
>-- 
>Best regards,
> Viktor                          mailto:henergy-at-mail.ru
>                                  http://www.high.h1.ru
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