Re: hi freq's and computers

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Original poster: "Chris Arnold by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chris_arnold-at-msn-dot-com>

Bernie,

That seems to depend a lot on the computer that is near the coil.  A friend 
of mine built a solid state coil in the 2 kW or so range and consistently 
ran it only 6-8 feet away from his computer, which even had the side of the 
case off for most of the time, with no ill effects.  His next door neighbor 
(college dorm housing) had an older Compaq computer without adequate 
shielding on the keyboard and wireless mouse had some "issues" with the 
coil, mainly while the coil was in operation it would spontaneously type 
random characters and completely scramble the wireless mouse.  However, if 
you're running a conventional disruptive coil, with much more "unfriendly" 
RF hash being emitted, you might want to exercise more caution, perhaps 
even so far as making sure that you have more than adequate line filtering, 
if the computer remains plugged in.

Chris Arnold


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: hi freq's and computers
>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:52:19 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Bernie Crews by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bern-at-flaccess-dot-com>
>
>Is it dangerous to have your computer in the same room as your experiments?
>Does anyone know how far away do we need to keep our computers from a Tesla
>coil?
>
>Thanks for the info.
>