I always kept just enough lighting, in their faces, so I saw them, but they couldn't see me. Halloween ain't like it was when we grew up. We always went out on our own. Now, parents drive their kids, either in cars or golf carts. I knew they were coming.
The funnest I ever did, was after they walked near a screaming, flashing thing (coil), they had to walk around a winding walkway to the front porch. I rigged up an emergency strobe, and 100+ dB buzzer at eye level on a few trees. I had an old closed circuit camera hooked up to a monitor, so I turned them on just as they were less than 3 feet away.
On Sunday, September 23, 2018, 4:58:17 PM EDT, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Whoa! That coud have resulted in a potential law suit, not to mention some
really bad PR for the coiling community! I'm sure glad it didn't. Although I
often use July 4th as a good excuse to "make even more noise" with my large
Tesla coil, I suppose the liability of firing off a potentially deadly
machine in my front driveway when there are groups of youngsters coming up
and down my driveway has kind of scared me away from firing mine on
Halloween. I own a nice sized piece of land (40 acres) in a quite rural
setting some 85 miles from my current residence, but no permanent structure
for residing (or coiling) on this land yet. So for now, in my current
suburban setting, I pretty much only roll out the beast onto my driveway to
fire off when I get a set date for an audience of adults (or maybe
teenagers) who wish to see it in action.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "BrianB" <brianb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2018 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Tales of the suburban HV hobbiest
>I run my coil outdoors most Halloween's. One year this 12yo kid showed up
>dressed as a doctor and carrying a large piece of X-Ray film. He showed me
>the X-Ray as he got his candy and I did the usual very cute, thank you,
>etc. After the other kids walked away he said look closely at the X-Ray. I
>did and saw an obvious broken arm (Radius and Ulna) and said that must have
>hurt. He then said look closer at the date! It was from Halloween the year
>before. He told me my Tesla Coil had scared him and as he ran he tripped
>over a friend badly breaking his arm. The good news is he learned all about
>Tesla and Tesla Coils during his recuperation and thanked me for inspiring
>him to dig deeper into science.
>
> BrianB
>
>> On Sep 23, 2018, at 7:42 AM, Daniel Kunkel <dankunkel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Experienced Tesla List,
>> I'm lucky enough to live in the country on a few acres with houses spaced
>> far enough apart that unwanted onlookers or kids on bikes have never been
>> an issue with my coil hobby...not that I have a coil big enough to
>> necessitate outdoor runs anyway.
>>
>> So I'd love to hear some of your interesting experiences with neighbors
>> and
>> gawkers! Any positive or negative experiences to share?
>>
>> ~Dan
>> Kansas City area
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