RE: Jacob's Ladder "Snap" (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:43:53 -0600
From: Godfrey Loudner <ggreen@xxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Jacob's Ladder "Snap" (fwd)

If this were true, I would be deaf now with all the Jacob's ladder running
time I have logged---NSTs, Pole pigs, x-ray transformers, and other types.

Godfrey Loudner

>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?