Re: Inexperience was RE: Mad experiment or Re: PDT

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

Your 18kW coil is not the 450VA that was mentioned in the original thread.

KEN
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Subject: Re: Inexperience was RE: Mad experiment or Re: PDT


> Original poster: "Paul Marshall by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> My coil runs at 18 kw and produces 10' - 12' streamers under poor
> conditions. One strike and your out. It would probably set you on fire as
> well.
>
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> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: Re: Inexperience was RE: Mad experiment or Re: PDT
> >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:57:14 -0600
> >
> >Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> ><tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
> >
> >All these "horror" stories are wonderful and such, but don't actually
> >educate anybody as to say prevent accidents with a tesla coil. I cannot
> >imagine most tesla coils are powered off 3 phase 480 volts factory buss
bar
> >with nearly unlimited power levels. Your average tesla coil will not weld
> >you into a breaker box, or make you fall off a utility pole while setting
> >you on fire.
> >
> >As for Viktor's questions, keep in mind that the output of a small coil
> >might not do much aside from burn you. The primary coil and caps can kill
> >you easily. If you do feel the need to play with the output of the
> >secondary
> >directly, you will want to avoid any means of falling into anything
dealing
> >with the primary. You will want to make sure that your secondary arcs are
> >not picking any current from the primary as well. As you can tell from
> >reading posts, people get strikes to their primary all the time. It
> >inherently seems like a bad idea to intentionally play with your
secondary
> >arcs knowing this. Tesla coils behave in strange ways and you will
probably
> >want too observe the strange things that happen (as in sparks glong long
> >distances and not to the nearest grounded object) before trying your
> >"experiment".
> >
> >KEN
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 11:28 PM
> >Subject: Re: Inexperience was RE: Mad experiment or Re: PDT
> >
> >
> > > Original poster: "Daniel Barrett by way of Terry Fritz
> ><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dbarrett1-at-austin.rr-dot-com>
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Another example of the cavalier attitude about the danger of high
> > > > potentials is prevalent is my current profession. I work in
Commercial
> > > > Kitchen Equip. Repair. I commonly work with voltages of 240 and 480
> >with
> > > > supplies of up to 200A or greater! There isn't one time that I open
a
> > > > panel of 480/150A that I don't pause for the cause, but I watch
techs
> > > > poke and prod around live circuits like it's all made of 120/10A! I
> > > > watched one trainee check a circuit with a Fluke voltage probe (the
> > > > little ones that glow if voltage is present) find no indication and
> >then
> > > > promptly grab the lines and shock the smile right off his face!! He
> >did
> > > > not know that if you test with the Tester, putting it in certain
> >places
> > > > (i.e. directly between two lines) you'll get false readings. His
> > > > inexperience cost him a couple of burns and a bruised ego. He was
> >lucky!
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     One this note, a story related to me by a coworker-
> > > A trained/cluefull/careful technician was working on a piece of HV
gear
> >and
> > > got zapped. That was not much of a problem in and of itself. His life
> >got
> > > complicated because the jolt threw him into an open 440VAC panel, and
a
> > > wrench in his tool bag found two of the three legs in the panel. The
> > > resulting explosion blew his left buttock OFF.
> > >     The point is that the collateral damage that may occur when you
get
> > > zapped can be worse than the zap itself- if a little streamer hit from
> >your
> > > coil cause you to spaz out and dump your beer onto your primary...
> > >
> > > db
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> Paul S. Marshall
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