Re: About the skin effect in humans

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Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

Well trust me, Tesla himself said how many volts where in his coils. Just
look up some info on him, especially biographies and interviews, he explains
how he set his stunts up. I mean this is the man himself, I find it somewhat
odd that many people here don't seem to know that much about the man that
made the devices your building and his great work. If anyone is to know what
the effects were, it was Tesla himself.
BTW, Many of Tesla's close friends even witnessed Tesla producing small bits
of ball lightning and rolling them down his suitcoat arm, and actually
lighting the air in his lab itself a glow with spectactors in it, without a
light source. There are many secrets alot of engineers don't know that Tesla
took to the grave with him, don't underestimate the man's knowledge.:)
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Subject: Re: About the skin effect in humans


 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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 > Subject: Re: About the skin effect in humans
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 >  >
 >  > It also depends on if the current flows thro many areas of the body at
 > once
 >  > or thro one single channel, Tesla used to easily hook himself up to 3MV
 >  > tuned properly many times in his life, and he lived quite long, the
only
 >  > real accident when was when he was nearly killed by his colorado
springs
 >  > setup, which was quite large indeed.
 >
 > It's unlikely that Tesla ever made 3 Megavolts....
 > And while he lived quite a while, who's to say whether his mental state in
 > later days wasn't adversely affected by a few zaps.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > Anyone here hooking themselves up to
 >  > there large coils the way you guys design them is definately a bad
idea,
 >  > most of the coils I seen being built are very low in frequency compared
to
 >  > tesla's stunt coils, 200 khz and below, if I remember correctly tesla
used
 >  > something around 2-3 mhz on the coils he hooked himself to. Which was
 >  > probably a big factor.
 >
 > 2-3 MHz still has a very large skin depth on people.. 1/3 the depth of
what
 > it would be at 200 kHz, however, still many, many cm, if not meters.
 >
 >
 >   I'll try to find these references to the skin effect
 >  > tests, I think alot depends on the type of RF current flowing thro the
 >  > person, most tests were probably done used undamped RF while Tesla
coils
 > use
 >  > damped waves which might factor in on how the current travels thro the
 > body.
 >
 > Damped wave or CW, it matters little.  You're talking about putting RF
power
 > through the body, and average power is probably the significant thing.  RF
 > burns are no fun.
 >
 >  > Best advice of course is down mess with anything over a few hundred
watts
 >  > damped wave. You should probably research old oudin coil setups and
tesla
 >  > coils from the early 1900s that were used in electrotherapy, if you
wish
 > to
 >  > design something you can use "hands on".
 >
 > I would hardly use practices from 1900 as a guide to safe operation.
 >
 >