Re: High Voltage Cake

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• Subject: Re: High Voltage Cake
• From: spam_proof-at-worldnet.att-dot-net (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:12:22 -0600
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Sounds like an interesting idea.  You'll probably  get leakage current (in
addition to capacitave effects), but depending on the cake and your coil,
it sounds like something that would work.  I wonder if you could "freshen"
up mint frosting with the ozone...

                - A. Banerjee

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "John Pepper" <jspepper-at-lbl.gov> 
> 
> Greetings All,
> 
> While I was celebrating a birthday recently a wild thought came to
> mind.  Imagine if instead of candles you were to put several thin pointy
> metallic objects (Nails, Etc.) on top of your birthday cake and then
> turn up the juice.  The cake may add some additional capacitance to the
> top load or even replace it, so you may need to do some tuning to find
> the sweet spot (pun intended).  Of course, I don't think you would want
> to "blow" out the streamers as you would candles.
> 
> 8^)
> -John
> 
> 

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