Re: Science Fair success!

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• Subject: Re: Science Fair success!
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:03:12 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi Matt,

On 10 May 00, at 5:37, Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Fucian-at-aol-dot-com 
> 
> Hi all, this is matt and just won the science fair.The judges were very hard 
> to get along with and stated some false info also.He said Tesla was famouse 
> for DC and not Ac!? Am I wrong or is he?Several other arguments suggested he 
> knew very little about tesla coils.Also my sparks were only 7 in!!!They used 
> to be 15 at home.Is it the ground rod? At home the ground rod was 1ft away 
> from the coil.At the school it was about 20 or more feet away.Thank goodness 
> it was only 7 in because a stupid guy in 11th grade went in when no one was 
> around and turned it on! He said he touched it bare handed right on the 
> toroid and it knocked him silly.

That judge ought to be forced to write "DC = Edison, AC = Tesla" a 
thousand times after school.

         I'd say you got lucky. That guy could have touched something 
else. When one of my coils was on display at an education fair a 
few years ago, I removed the extension cord to prevent anyone 
playing with it while I was not present.

Regards,
Malcolm

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