Re: avoid getting killed in the process...

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: avoid getting killed in the process...
• From: "Jason R. Johnson" <hvjjohnson13-at-xoommail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 12:16:57 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Tesla List wrote:
 > Original Poster: "bob golding" <yubba-at-clara-dot-net> 
 > 
 >  Don't forget you can get zapped by plugs as well. If you don't believe me
 > try unplugging a TV then grabbing the prongs of the plug. Ouch, or ouch
 > crash!! if you happen to pick the TV up just after you have unplugged it.
 > This might apply to Tesla coils as well, just to stay on subject.
 > cheers 
 > bob golding
 >
 >
 > > after one unpleasant surprise working on an old color TV quite a while
 > ago,
 > > I always make sure that I am holding the plug to the device in question
 > IN
 > > MY HAND before I mess with the HV stuff.  AND, I make sure that it's the
 > > right cord too - it does no good to unplug something else and then get
 > > zapped
 > 

     I have been zapped by the prongs on the plug of a very small (6500v -at- 
.65mA) power transformer when a cap (.0015uf) discharged through the 
secondary. I would hate to have been bitten by a transformer with a larger cap 
across the secondary, say a .0133uf cap on a 12kv 60mA NST.

Still learning,
Jason Johnson



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