Re: Newbie Question

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>


My question is this, as I tinker with the coil & hopefully start 
getting longer streamers, could strikes to the walls & ceiling cause 
any problems with equipment connected to the house AC wiring?  My 
concern is the possibility of a streamer finding it's way through the 
drywall into the wiring, or maybe more likely, striking an AC outlet 
or light fixture & putting a lot of HV & RF directly into the wiring.

My wife's not real big on this whole Tesla thing & frying the house 
wiring or our electronic stuff wouldn't help things.

Like I said, this may be a dumb quesion.  I'd appreciate any advice.
Thanks.

Dennis, Hopkinton MA"

   Not a dumb question at all and the answer, of course, is yes!!!!!
There is always the possibility of hidden fires too.  Somewhere I 
have a letter from Richard Hull on the general subject.  One of the 
TCBOR tapes showed lots of strikes going into the ceiling, 
fluorescent lamps, walls, bench grinder, etc.  I asked him if they'd 
ever had any trouble because of that and the answer was something 
like:  "Other than a few fires, burned out appliances and shorts in 
the AC lines the only trouble was when one of our guys burned himself 
badly with a home made X-ray tube."
Real low key answer but the danger is real enough and I never run a 
coil, even my small ones, where there can be strikes to the power 
lines or any equipment.

Ed