Re: [TCML] Noxiuos fumes from high powered arc/JL

["Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I've made this mistake before.  I was playing with my 6" coil in the garage,
and I ignored the smell.  I left the garage with a sore throat, and
coughing.  This was while the coil was poorly tuned, once I got the coil
properly tuned it stopped  making so much ozone.  I haven't even noticed an
ozone problem with my VTTC.  That seems to produce far more NOx than ozone.
At least the NOx does not smell as terrible as Ox :)

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 16:50, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure others have ran into this issue but I thought that
> I would bring it up to alert relative newcomers and to re-
> fresh the memories of us "old salts". As most of us are
> already aware, the production of ozone (O3), along with
> various nitrogen oxides, can become rather copius during
> operation of Tesla coils, especially the smaller to medi-
> um sized SGTCs or DRSSTCs. Without proper ventil-
> lation, these gases can quickly reach toxic levels. From
> my personal experience, the distinctive O3 odor seems to
> actually become less noticable with higher powered SG
> driven coils where the ground striking arcs become more
> and more numerous and start to take on more power arc
> characteristics than the typical purplish blue corona and
> streamers. However, I never really gave much thought
> to excessive toxic gas production in an improperly ventillated
> area while just running or making large 60 hz. power arcs, like
> in a large Jacob's ladder. Sure enough though, today while I
> was playing around with my beloved 150 kvp, 600 mA x-ray
> transformer, making some impressive power arcs, I began
> to notice asthma-like symptoms with my breathing (and
> I don't have asthma) and began to cough rather uncontrol-
> ably. Funny thing was that I really couldn't smell any
> O3 but I still got that feeling of inhaling too much O3.
> Once I moved outdoors to fresh air, the symptoms went
> away pretty promptly. I'm assuming that any electric
> arc is going to produce some NOs, even though they may
> not always have a detectable odor. It seems that it takes
> longer to get over these symptoms after moving to fresh
> air when the distinctive sharp odor of O3 is noted than it
> did with today's "odorless" experience, though. Anyone
> else have any more light to shead on this thread?
>
> David Rieben
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