Re: [TCML] Fried It !

[Steve Ward <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>]

When i used to live at my parents house, i had some "interesting" problems
when running a medium sized (about 40" spark, 12/60NST) spark gap coil near
the end of the garage, where the car was parked outside the garage (wooden
door, not aluminum).  On the 1996 ford taurus, something in the computer
failed making the car un-usable, this coincided with me running the tesla
coil in the garage.  That is, after running the coil near the car, the
computer was trashed (first and last time i would ever do that).  No, it
never arced to the car, and i'd estimate the car was maybe 8-10 feet away
from the coil itself.  The computer had to be replaced, i dont recall the
cost but it wasn't as cheap.

Certainly not all electrical devices are created equal when it comes to the
possibility of damage through various modes of coupling E/M energy into
them. I feel responsible for letting others know that you can in fact cause
expensive damage to your motor vehicles, despite the car body appearing to
act like a faraday cage.

Interestingly, i have never since damaged any electronics via tesla coils
(well, unless you include the electronics that are part of the tesla coil
itself).

Steve

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Brandon Garretson
<garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I personally would not run my coil that close to a modern motor vehicle
> either.
> Call me paranoid but there are numerous electronic devices that could
> be damaged by EMPs.
>
>
>
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