Re: High Voltage Experiment

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Original poster: "colin heath" <colin.heath4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

hi there,
           well i had trouble with a hdpe former myself. it was 12" 
diameter thick walled so to lift it i had to hug the coil as it was so 
heavy. needless to say this seriously hurt when i got a shock!!!! no more 
huggin coils for me!
cheers
colin

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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: High Voltage Experiment


> Original poster: BunnyKiller <bunikllr@xxxxxxx>
>
> Secondary shocks seem to be more common than thought...   I have an 8"X32" 
> secondary ( wound on lexan tube) that IS notorious for being able to 
> deliver TASER like pulses if handled wrong...   One evening I had ( this 
> is before encountering its wrath) grabbed the secondary with both hands 
> and lifted it from its mount... the bottom lead wire was hanging freely 
> and had come in contact with my upper right thigh... needless to say, the 
> shock was severe enough to cause my right leg to go into a semi-paralysis 
> state.  I dropped to the ground and had lost all function in the right leg 
> for several minutes...   it was difficult to explain to the wife that 
> everything was OK as I floundered around on the ground for that moment...
>
> the weird part of this situation was several nites later when I had run 
> the BIGPIG coil and the lexan 8" was sitting on the workbench...  I had 
> left a kitchen towel next to the 8"er ( the kind of towel with the frizzly 
> ends)... I had returned to the workshop to notice the towel's frizzy ends 
> extending towards the secondary and then suddenly relax and then to slowly 
> extend again towards the secondary....  this went on for several 
> minutes....   my thoughts were that the BIGPIG's output charged the 8" 
> secondary to such a degree that is was possible for this to happen...
>
> I'll leave the rest of the thought process up to the thinkers...   I'm 
> going to avoid the 8" secondary for a while after running any of my coils...
>
> Scot D
>
>
>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have gotten shocks from every coil I have had.  From 15" on down.
> > After running a while, I wipe them down with one hand and have the other 
> > hand touching the torrid.  That will get rid of the built up static and 
> > no more shocks.
> >
> > David E Weiss