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Re: A laser pointer killed my coil?
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- Subject: Re: A laser pointer killed my coil?
- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@pupman.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:02:50 -0700
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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist@qwest.net>
Hi Chris,
As far as I know, there is no possible way a plain ol' ~635nm <1mW laser
pen could hurt a coil. It was just a coincidence.
Cheers,
Terry
At 07:49 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I think I'm starting a trend of blowing things up. =\
>
>I finally got my mini coil completed (I would show some pictures, but
>don't know how to post them) and decided to bring it over to a friend's
>house to show him. (It's wierd being able to fit a complete, unassembled
>coil in your car) While it was running, my friend had a laser pointer with
>him and pointed it at the coil. The second the red dot touched the
>breakout point, there was a popping noise, the coil stopped running, and
>there was a fire starting on the primary side of the open core and coil
>NST. (Let's see, that's about 1min 43 seconds of TOTAL run time before
>something blew up - is that some kind of record? =\ Now, did the laser
>pointer do this, (I think it's just a coincidence) did something else
>cause the NST to die, (there wasn't a saftey filter but I think that would
>hurt the secondary) or could it be that the NST is just somewhat old? Sigh
>- I wish I could build a tesla coil correctly for once.
>
>
>-Chris
>
>"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
>not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
>
>
>
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