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RE: Lightning from Fingertips Trick



Original poster: <davep@xxxxxxxx>


>     I've always been fascinated by the human lightning tricks done
> with Tesla coils, and would like to do something on my own for an
> online production video - although on a very small scale, say using 1/2"
> sparks to light a bulb, cigarette, etc. I have a fairly large VTTC coil
> and I did some (very careful) experimenting the other
> night, using just a few kV of output. I attempted to make some sort of
> isolating platform for myself to stand on, but couldn't seem to make it
> work. Even when standing on 5" of styrofoam with (thin)
> plexiglass overtop, my fingers would still draw sparks when I brought
> them near the coil.
    Of course.
     'you' are capcitively part of the circuit to ground.


> This was with the coil secondary grounded to a water
> pipe. Does it have something to do with the grounding of the coil, or is
> there something I'm missing here?
     Sounds like the coil is big enough not to try this with.
     best
      dwp