Re: [TCML] GFI Transformer Help

[Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   These aren't exactly "school kids" - they're senior high honors 
students at a school for the gifted.  They're a lot older than I was 
when I made my first TC with a small NST salvaged from a sign on top of 
a burned building.  So far my nephew hasn't gotten them into motor bike 
riding but they have built some sensational potato cannons capable of 
tossing a potato about a half mile into the pacific from their campus.  
Other projects include a big VDG, several Wimshurst machines, hot air 
engines, one model jet engine, etc.  George believes that there's a big 
connection between the hands and the brain and so do I.

Ed

"I cringe at the public liability aspects of handing out HV transformers 
to schoolkids. Would you as a parent be happy with that?  I wouldn't. A 
great learning experience I am sure, but so is learning about high 
explosives and motor bike racing.
Nevertheless a nice score with 12kV 240mA.
Peter
www.tesladownunder.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Phillips" <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> My nephew teaches at a "gifted children's" high school near San Diego 
> and he managed to convince a SD sign shop to give the his all of the 
> transformers they wanted if they salvaged them from old signs stored 
> in the back yard of the shop.  They got a lot and he brought me 4 12 
> kV, 60 ma Jeffersons to play with.  Always worth a try.

By the way, about 10 of his students including a couple of girls made 
decent TC's during the term.

Ed

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