[RE]Lightning from Fingertips Trick

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Original poster: "M G" <gt4awd@xxxxxxxxx>


Hi Chris, there is no way to stop the coil from arc'ing to your hand 
as far as I know. The streamers will connect to anything with some 
capacitance. Your body has capacitance. The use of an insulated 
platform is so the electricity from the coil does not just travel 
through you into the ground. Instead you can have it travel from one 
hand to another or whatever trick you are trying to perform. I'm not 
an expert but I believe I am right. Anyone feel free to correct me.

Matt G.

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Subject : Lightning from Fingertips Trick
Date : Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:23:52 -0700
From : "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Original poster: "Chris Fanjoy"

I've always been fascinated by the human lightning tricks done
with Tesla coils, and would like to do something on my own for an
online production video - although on a very small scale, say using
1/2" sparks to light a bulb, cigarette, etc. I have a fairly large
VTTC coil and I did some (very careful) experimenting the other
night, using just a few kV of output. I attempted to make some sort
of isolating platform for myself to stand on, but couldn't seem to
make it work. Even when standing on 5" of styrofoam with (thin)
plexiglass overtop, my fingers would still draw sparks when I brought
them near the coil. This was with the coil secondary grounded to a
water pipe. Does it have something to do with the grounding of the
coil, or is there something I'm missing here?
Any advice would be appreciated.


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