Re: [TCML] Tesla Coil Output Hazards, Skin Effect?

[mark olson <kc5gym@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:29 PM 12/4/07 -0800, you wrote:
I have witnessed exactly this.  Fortunately, the finger wasn't lost, but 
burnt to the bone.  It took months to heal (no, it wasn't me thank God).

> Even low voltage, say like a car battery, can burn the skin around the 
> metal object if it is shorted. A ring across a car battery will spot weld 
> itself to the connections and then the ring gets red hot and you can lose 
> a finger.

marko 

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