Re: Fear Factor

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net> 

Some of the sounds were "fake" when they pulled their hands from the 
barrels, there was a much different "bzzap" sound commonly heard in movies 
that was played.

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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: Fear Factor


>Original poster: "Shad Henderson" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
>That rocked :)   Even with a faraday suit, you'd still get plenty juiced
>up, especially your feet.  I missed the very beginning of the show, and
>I'd give anything to see the looks on those poor saps faces when they
>watch those streamers and hear the noise, and think, "I got to stand
>waay too close to that thing?!!"
>
>
>The coil looked very professional and well designed.  I'm curious what
>needed to be done to make it run reliably upside down, though.  What
>keeps the streamers from simply licking upwards along the secondary?
>Streamers rise because of heat.  I'd expect them just to bend upwards
>and strike the base.  Is it required to run a breakout on the coil to
>prevent that from happening?
>
>I'm impressed with the quality of that coil, though.  I'm sure they
>would have cut out any takes where the coil developed problems, but in
>the runs they did show, it ran splendidly.  Never a break or
>interruption, just good smooth running.
>
>I would guess that it's either a low-speed ARSG or a SRSG. It *sounded*
>like 120bps when I was listening to it.  Could it be that we have a
>rather large LTR pig powered coil?  Or was the sound dubbed over?
>
>Good job!
>
>
>
>
>Shad
>
>On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:55, Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > It looks like we may have another coiler in one of the contestants.  She
> > wanted one for her living room!
> >
> > David E Weiss
> >
> >
>