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RE: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN PATH???



Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dan,

If it is just a single conductor, imagine what happens if it hits a grounded target... Guess "who" is between the high voltage and ground in that case!!! Sort of like arcing a Tesla coil to ground while you are holding it...

It "might" kill a terrorist if they dropped their bomb while laughing uncontrollably watching the thing shocking the crap out of the marksman...

Sound's like DC Cox might know the fellow, so maybe some of these details are more figured out than we suspect.

Jim Wrote:

What is really funny is this "patent-pending technology" has so much prior art... I am sure their patent attorney will make some money out of it all...

Doesn't say they're going for a utility patent (the kind you're thinking of). Maybe they're getting a design patent on the patterning of the stock?

I can't even begin to imagine the copycats with a "different stock" design :o)))


I would go for a battlefield reconfigurable system based on  LEGO...

http://www.ozbricks.com/battlespace/pics/locust/locust_BL.jpg

LEGO actually has a custom design department to help out and even design software...

"New versions of LEGO Digital Designer enables you to build your way customizing your own product"....

http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/default.asp

As far as I know, the AK-47 was never patented...

Cheers,

        Terry

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At 12:49 PM 9/1/2005, you wrote:

Just how on earth is someone going to get shocked with a single
conductor???
Where is the return path? There is none.  It wouldn't work. You could
say ground would be the return path,
but with so much resistance (shoes, body tissue, earth itself), its just
not a low enough impedance to provide
adequate current flow.
Tasers carry two conductors so that current can flow - remember voltage
doesn't create pain, its the associated current that does.

Dan



Hi,

Most Tasers carry two wires so the one who holds it is pretty
safe.  If this is just a single conductor along say a stream of
water, Then the shooter would have to have maybe high heels on with a
dragging ground wire.  Then it "might" work...  Of course, like
Tesla's very similar death ray, hope the target is unarmed and
standing still.  Against a mad "terrorist" with an AK-47 it might not
do so well...

What is really funny is this "patent-pending technology" has so much
prior art...  I am sure their patent attorney will make some money
out of it all...

"What does it do to the hand that holds it?" - Imagine if you miss
and hit a power line...  Might not be good to using in a lightning
storm either...

Cheers,

         Terry


At 08:59 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote: >"It is a solid state TC hand-held rifle that delivers a solid 10 ft >long spark. > >Pete's out of Anderson, IN. > >Dr. Resonance" > > What does it do to the hand that holds it? > >Ed