Re: Slighty zapped from metal casing

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Original poster: "Chris the great" <downnessisgoingup-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

I have experienced similar effects of being shocked.  In one run my friend 
turned off the lights, and when I turned on the coil he got a massive shock 
from the screws on the lightswitch casing.  However, these where grounded, 
so, perhaps people float up to a high voltage?  I remember reading 
somewhere that conductive objects near a coil will float up to high 
voltages, is this true?



>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Slighty zapped from metal casing
>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:01:24 -0600
>
>Original poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
>
>In a message dated 10/14/03 8:22:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
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>>I am gradually getting the hang of turning up power and adjusting my SRSG .
>>I'm still scared to turn it up all the way, and am unnerved because I
>>sometimes get tiny shocks from the casing of both variacs on the way to
>>full power %^ {
>>Is this normal?
>>- Wimpy in Minnesota
>>(Thanks for any comments
>>Robert Hanford)
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>
>Robert,
>
>It may be normal if the case is left floating.  On my small coil (15kv 60 
>ma power) I ground the variac cases to line ground.  On my large coil 
>(14.4 kv 7kva) I have a separate ground rod system that I tie all the 
>variac cases to.
>
>Ed Sonderman
>