Re: Can You Get Zapped by your coil with out being harmed?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Timothy,

See the following:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Safety/safety.htm

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/Deaths.txt

Also a search of the archives at:

http://www.pupman-dot-com/htsearch.html

for:

"Arcs off the fingers and getting killed in the process..."

A very in-depth discussion on the subject.

Asking if getting shocked by streamers is "safe" is like asking if the 
Space Shuttles is "safe"...  In general, unless you are a Tesla coiling 
master that knows so much about the subject you don't have to ask...  Don't 
touch the sparks ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry


At 03:28 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a coil that i built a year ago and I have played wit it a lot.  I 
>have never been "hit" by a spark but i was wondering if you can actually 
>let the spark jump to your finger without killing yourself.  It runs off 
>of a 4000 volt transformer with 1 shunt removed.  its about ten inches 
>tall so its not huge.  Let me know so I dont do something stupid;)