Re: [TCML] Touching 500Kv Tesla coil

[eric goodchild <ericgoodchild@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why would you want to touch a SGTC anyway? It hurts like hell and not really
as fun as it may look. DON'T TOUCH TESLA COILS!

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM, G Hunter <dogbrain_39560@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > A wooden chair is not a good idea. Wood CAN retain
> > moisture, and moisture
> > WILL conduct the energy from the coil.
> > Leave the 'fantastic demos' to the pro's.
> >
> > - brent
>
> Interesting you should mention wooden chairs.  I once used an old 48"
> flourescent tube taped to a stick of dry 2x2 pine for coil demonstration.
>  The length of the lamp plus the length of the wooden spar put me 10' or so
> away from the kilowatt-class NST coil.  I held the thing out like a long
> fishing pole to get one end of the tube lamp withing striking distance.  The
> TC strike not only lit the tube very brightly, but also instantly broke out
> from the lamp prongs at my end.  The spark jumped over to the end of the
> wooden stick, and rapidly (a few inches per second) worked its way down the
> pole toward my hands, eating into the wood with an orange-ish spark all the
> way.  I pulled back to a safe distance before the crawling spark reached me.
>  As an insulator, wood sux at high voltage & high frequency!
>
> BTW - I tried the same setup using a length of PVC pipe and had no more
> issues.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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