Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain

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Original poster: "Paul Marshall" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Sounds Fatal to me. Any time you have a substantial current you have a 
substantial problem



Paul S. Marshall





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: freak show with tesla coil, please explain
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:23:55 -0600
>
>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
>_______________
>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!
> >