[TCML] Frying cars with Tesla coils

[Bert Pool <micro_wave@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At one of my Teslathons 4 or 5 years back, Aaron Koscho and Justin Hays 
pulled their van up into the driveway where we had a large magnifier 
running.  Sparks were about 10 footers, or thereabouts.  Not only was 
the van repeatedly struck, many of the power arcs were directly to the 
radio antenna!  I was expecting them to have to push the truck 400 feet 
or so to the road after they killed all the electronics.  But not only 
did the truck's computer survive, *all* the vehicle's electronics came 
through with no problems, including the radio!  I'm talking about sparks 
that were hitting the truck and antenna and were arcing around the 
rubber tires to the concrete!  I don't remember if the truck was a Ford, 
but whatever it was, it sure was one tough truck!

Bert Pool


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> From: "Steve Ward" <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:13 PM
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Fried It !
>
> .....On the 1996 ford taurus, something in the computer
>
> > failed making the car un-usable, this coincided with me running the 
> > tesla
> > coil in the garage.  That is, after running the coil near the car, the
> > computer was trashed (first and last time i would ever do that).  No, it
> > never arced to the car, and i'd estimate the car was maybe 8-10 feet 
> > away
> > from the coil itself.  The computer had to be replaced, i dont recall 
> > the
> > cost but it wasn't as cheap.

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