Re: Skin depth (again) was: Re: Newbie with questions...

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

 >  > Would it be safe to do this with a low power coil (1-50 watts)?
 >  > At this power would internal harm be non-existant?  50 watts wouldn't
cause
 >  > burns if you didn't expose yourself for long, or would it?
 >

Even if, for this case, there is no pain and no damage,  it is still a very
bad practice,  if there ever is a sneak path from the secondary to the
primary (like a streamer), you will be connected to the primary enery at 60
Hz and cardiac fibrilation or death could result.

Gerry R
Ft Collins, CO