Re: Coil for sale

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 3/30/02 9:17:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

Jim, all,

To be honest, I have to agree with Jim on this one. Let's face it, this
machine would be positively LETHAL in the wrong hands. IMHO a
Tesla system of this magnitude is really too dangerous for the average
John Q. Citizen who has not progressed thru the typical learning 
curve that most of us go thru to achieve construction of a large coil system.
I'm certainly not saying that one needs to be an EE to build or handle
a big coil system, but one certainly needs to be well experienced 
with the aspect of safely handling potentially lethal HV circuitry. As
others have already stated, most of us go thru the learning curve of
building a small NST or OBIT Tesla coil before we jump into a pole
pig system. Let's face it, if you've never messed with HV before, 
you're almost certain to make a few mistakes along the way. And 
as I've said before, a "mistake" with 10 kV -at- 23 mA will be quite
painful, but the same mistake at 14.4 kV -at- ~ 700 mA will most like-
ly be LETHAL. I myself have made a few mistakes back in my 
"10/23" days and learned to be more careful before I got into the
pole pig era. I'm sure that there are even some EE types that 
are totally inexperienced in dealing with the HV high energy cir-
cuitry of a large Tesla system up close amd personal and there
are some plain HS grads that are quite experienced and self taught
to the point that they are quite capable of SAFELY handling a
large Tesla system.

Hopefully, anyone who knows what this system is will be smart 
enough to realize the dangers involved with the operation of such 
a system.

Sparkin' in Memphis,
David Rieben


<< I don’t know about that auction,
< The whole thing seems a little fishy to me.
 
< Can you imaging what shipping and insurance would be on just the
< transformer alone (never mind the breakable stuff)?
 
< What would the liability be if you sold it to a bunch of frat kids who
< end up killing a fellow beer bonger?
 
< The whole premise of an auction of this type seems touchy at best and
< plain old irresponsible at worst.
 
< Just my .02,
< Jim >>