Jacob's Ladder "Snap" (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:56:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Roberts <quezacotl_14000000000000@xxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Jacob's Ladder "Snap"


Hi Everybody,

I was recently talking to one of my neighbors about the "strange lightning thing" that I play around with, and he told me of hearing a story about how a Jacob's ladder can hurt your hearing. He said that when the arc starts at the bottom, the "snap" heard is extremely loud, but so quick of a pulse that you don't register it as being as loud as it is. He didn't know whether or not it was true, and it sounded like a techno-myth to me, but has anyone else heard (pun intended) about this?



-Chris

"The trouble is not that the world is full of fools, it's just that lightning isn't distributed right." -Mark Twain

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

[The Jacob's ladders that I've seen  make a nice, warm 60Hz hum with a
muted, fuzzy snap at the end, nothing that would injure your hearing as
far as I would think.  Other dangers...UV suntan?  Maybe.  Death by 60Hz
high voltage?  Definitely if you're not careful and get betwixt the
terminals. SRR]

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