Re: RE: The simple problem with Tesla coiling now... Re: Xfmrs

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Original poster: "Wolfram Dr Steinkamp" <Wolfram-Steinkamp@xxxxxx>

Hi Jim,

tesla equipment are no tools to play with, a 
critical physical trayment is absolutely to be 
done  to avoid shocks or unexpected effects that can finish the life.

Regards

Stone
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Datum: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:29:58 -0700
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Betreff: RE: The simple problem with Tesla coiling now...  Re: Xfmrs

> Original poster: "Jim Mora" <jmora@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
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> Subject: The simple problem with Tesla coiling now... Re: Xfmrs
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> Original poster: Terrell Fritz <terrellfone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I started "HV" with ignition coils from the junk yard in the fifth
> grade. Got shocked all the time ;-))  Then got into the mail order
> sources on Tesla coil plans.  They never worked...  Then went to
> "school"...  Then worked on 375kV power line equipment... Then worked
> in the high energy power supply business for another 18
> years...  Then "retired" ;-))  Played with lots of vacuum plasma
> things and lasers in there to...
>
> So after a lot of "skool" I know "how to do it" now ;-))
>
> So I studied Tesla coil arcs, and stepped further back with each
> study...  I studied the EMP dangers, and stopped doing public coil
> demos...  I studied the dangers of my modern circuits, and stopped
> publicly posting them...
>
> The "simple problem with Tesla coiling" NOW is, It is VERY
> dangerous!!!  Unlike the "good old days" when nobody got a coil to
> work for the first few years...  Now a days, the information is there
> to make a gigantically powerful coil right off in an afternoon with
> two old microwaves and a pair of pliers...  Worse yet, is that the
> new super high power coils are "much easier" to make than older designs...
>
> It really is "NOT fun games" any more...  If a young kid pulls a MOT
> instead of a ford coil, the 2kV at 2 amps will blow his dead guts all
> over the house!!!  The totally screwed up coil "plans" that could not
> shock your cat 20 years ago, have been "replaced" by coils that can
> send kitty "into orbit" now...
>
> There are a "few" "safety gates" still in place, but they are "fragile"...
>
> I "very deeply fear" that newcomers to our sport might "grasp" the
> newer technologies "right off" and simply kill themselves...
>
> I am not sure "how"...  But we are at the brink of needing to take
> safety "a great step further" now...
>
> Cheers,
>
>           Terry
>
>
>
> Hi Terry, et all,
>
> The dangers have changed and become more accessible for the curious but
> uninformed. Simply by disassembly of a junked microwave oven on the curb.
> Are there any stats on this?
>
> However, I latched onto B+ at 15 that was powering up a HS lab for tube
> experimentation and would have died if someone hadn't hit the emergency
> shut
> off ( I paralleled a few together). Too many clip leads around...We put
> them
> in a cabinet after that. B+ High Voltage was a given in tube days and gave
> a
> very nasty and likely dangerous bite since it was filtered.
>
> I think it is good that you are sending out the message of the dangers
> prior
> to the know how. The curious are in more danger now.
>
> Jim Mora
>

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