Re: [TCML] TC Application - Ozone Generation

["Dex Dexter" <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How to measure amounts of O3 and various oxides Tesla coils produce?

-Dex 

--- daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx wrote:

From: "McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [TCML] TC Application - Ozone Generation
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:23:17 -0400

Keep in mind that not only ozone your coil produces, but various nitrous oxides as well. (In true Yoda form) These compounds can especially irritate the eyes as well causing irritation that doesn't show up for about 24 hours.

Dan
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>> Hi,
>> Erm...my coil puts out a lot of O3.  Maybe it's defective.
>> I run it in my garage, doing my best not to disturb my neighbors.  If 
>> I run it for any longer than a minute with the doors closed the place 
>> smells like the YMCA pool (or a massive lightning storm has just gone 
>> by).  I have to open the door to air things out.
>> I have retired for the evening on more than one night with sore 
>> lungs.  Psychosomatic?  Dunno.
>>
>
> If you can smell it, you are past the point at which OSHA considers it 
> harmful.  If you are at the point where you have sore lungs, you 
> defnintely owe it to yourself to cobble up a ventilation system which 
> places you between the intake and the source of the gasses.
>
> High voltage is not the only danger involved with Tesla Coils, or any 
> other high-voltage hobby.
>
> Jon



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