Don't cook skunks was NST isolation level

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Original poster: Karl L <karl-at-coolbluesky-dot-com> 

Yikes!  Poor cat.  At least by giving it's life to your skunk zapper, it
may have actually saved a childs or adults life.  In the realm of high
voltage, just a few ma. of current can be enough to ruin ones' day.

Please everyone - Let's keep it safe.  As being better educated in
electrical safety than most, it is up to us to set a good example for
others.

Safe Coiling (to keep the hobby of Tesla Coiling below the radar)

Karl Lindheimer
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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

 > 	On the irrelevant subject of skunk zapping, 60 ma is way too much
 > current.  First time we got one it ended up hung up in the wires and
 > thoroughly cooked, with much arcing to the skin and attendent smells
 > that woke up the whole neighborhood in the middle of the night.  I
 > finally ended up running the thing with a big 1 meg resistor in series
 > and no more burned up skunks, although it was still lethal and the
 > total take is about a dozen, with an almost equal number of possums.
 > Took it down when the victim was a nice big old cat that had wandered
 > by.  Not a neighborhood ped but someone must have loved it and missed
 > it and we didn't want any repeats.
 >
 > Ed