Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain

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Original poster: "Nick Field" <nick.field-at-hvfx.co.uk> 

Hi Plugh,

Some people are dumb, what's to explain?

There is no skin effect in a human body.  If your bare skin is having to
support several hundred kV at a few hundred kHz. then a substantial reactive
current will be flowing through your body to ground.  Maybe, if you're
lucky, you'll do the stunt that way and not feel the effects
until you're 40 or 50.  If you're not so lucky you might catch a power arc
off somewhere other than your hands and it'll all end in tears.

People do a lot of silly things, doesn't make them safe.

Safe Coiling

Nick
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Nick Field, HVFX
www.hvfx.co.uk


 > last night I was at a local amusement park and they had a halloween setup
 > thing going there with a sort of a freak show with guys putting spiks
 > through their arms and fire eating and the likes, but then they brought
 > this girl in a bikini out put her on a table around 3 feet high where she
 > sat then they dragged a ground cable around the table then wheeled out a
 > Large Tesla coil and a pole pig. only chain mail she had on was gloves and
 > she proceeded to hold her hands up and shoot out 4 foot arcs.
 >
 > My question is this : I had read somewhere about misconceptions of the
skin
 > effect and that people would have aches and pains for the rest of their
 > life if they tried this kind of thing, she does shows like 8 times a day.
 >
 > After the show was over I went up to the guy and asked to see his TC setup
 > and he showed me all his components, a very very very very nice setup!
 >