Re: A laser pointer killed my coil?

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

 > Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > 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

Ooh, I still have you beaten. My shortest time to destruction was about 15
seconds. I burned out a new neon sign transformer, obviously making the coil
stop working. I used to get alot of RF filters catching on fire as a failure
mode as well.

It's not likely the laser killed the coil.

KEN