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Re: Safe parameters for stupid human Tesla coil stunts



Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Probably the safest way is to get one of those electrical suits off Jeff Parisse at $6k a pop, then you can take all the 50kva+ power arcs you want, tho i still wouldn't want to "test" that by shooting streamers from my hands at 12kv power lines. I have a feeling it wouldn't cover your butt too well at 60hz.

Mike
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Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Safe parameters for stupid human Tesla coil stunts


Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Owen,

The people that do this stunts have either been doing it for like 30 years or have been trained by people that have done it for 30 years... It takes a lot of knowledge and well trained helpers to do it with any degree of safety. Even small Tesla coils draw significant line current, handle hundreds of amps at thousands of volts and store very lethal charges... Like playing with tigers or jumping motor cycles over busses, it is just not a thing normal people should play with.

Henry Transtrom really perfected the art, till he got killed...

Cheers,

        Terry

At 12:23 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
> I see these pictures of people with thimbles on all fingers,
> radiating sparks. What would you consider to be safe parameters for
> performing stunts like this? Minimum secondary frequency, maximum > primary
> transformer current/voltage, stuff like that. Thanks.
>
> - Owen -