Re: TC Question and Discharge Safety - Lightning from Fingers

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Original poster: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net> 

Bart and Ed,

A number of years ago during the summer, I was demonstrating my 10" coil to 
a 14 year-old future scientist. The coil is housed in a screened in porch. 
A horsefly was buzzing around in the room and it finally happened to land 
on the toroid. I cranked the variac on just enough to make a single "pop". 
The resulting streamer passed through the fly, blowing it  to bits. The 
kid, now in college, still talks about the world's most expensive bug 
zapper.. :^)

Best regards,

-- Bert --

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>"Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com>
>New Years eve, my son and his girlfriend saw a spider on the ground and
>freaked out (daddy longleg). It amazes me how many people have fear of
>spiders (oh well). Anyway, I thought I'd see what happened if I placed
>it
>on the toroid. Can anyone guess how the spider faired?
>Bart"
>     Fried fast?
>Ed
>
>.