Re: Hood Ornament

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Original poster: "Mike Novak by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmnovak-at-msn-dot-com>

In Wisconsin, where I live, it's illegal to have anything "distracting" to
other drivers on your car :(
I was thinking of making a jacobs ladder on my dash until I found out about
that restriction. Check your local laws, and don't drive it out of town.
-Mike
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 9:12 PM
Subject: RE: Hood Ornament


> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi,
>
> "i" don't think the grounding problem would be that terrible to overcome.
> Maybe a drag chain or a little creative tire belting.  Not like we are
> talking a giant pig system here...  The car body may do the ground plan
> trick just fine with a little thought.  Perhaps a dual coil that really
> needs no grounding...
>
> One would almost have to build it all up and do some testing, but I think
> the shock off the car body could be fixed as long as it was understood.
> Perhaps a little gizmo that would not fire the coil under 15 MPH...  I
> would think that a driver that avoided running over the near people with
> the car could also avoid shocking people holding onto the car...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>
> At 08:58 PM 7/20/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hello Jake,
> >
> >Very bad idea.  Someone walks by and just touches or leans against your
car
> >(not an unusual action nor unexpected), jumps because of the sudden
shock,
> >and you are liable (morally and probably legally) for any injury
sustained.
> >Imagine if it is an old woman or man.  How about the slob who smacks the
> >side of your car with the door and promptly gets a shock when putting his
> >foot on the ground?  You are liable to find your car smashed up if he can
> >figure what zapped him.  I'd be tempted to smash the car myself if I was
> >casually zapped (I wouldn't do it, but I would call the police).
> >
> >It is probably illegal.
> >
> >Pete Komen
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> >Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:00 PM
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: Re: Hood Ornament
> >
> >Original poster: "Jake Draper by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> ><cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com>
> >
> >Would it be illegal to use that as a theft deterrent*? lol :)
> >    -Jake D.
> >    cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com
> >    http://taradev.cjb-dot-net
> >
> >
> >*The moderator will jump in "here" this time ;-)  Uses of a Tesla coil
such
> >as a legal theft deterrent are actually on topic (who makes up these
rules
> >anyway :-)).  However, legalities of stuff sometimes gets to be really
> >boring and "I" get tired of them...  Things such as "How can I wire up my
> >Tesla coil to kill my mother-in-law?" are obviously off-topic since they
> >are asking for advice on how to commit serious crimes...  Maybe I'll try
a
> >little proactive moderation here :-)) - Terry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-------Original Message-------
> >
> >From: Tesla list
> >Date: Friday, July 20, 2001 03:20:38 PM
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: Re: Hood Ornament
> >
> >Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> >
> >Oh! Jonathon brings up a good point! While the rest of the metal on the
car
> >may make somewhat of a ground plane, the whole car could get a
significant
> >RF
> >potential to ground! If the coil were running and you put your foot
outside
> >on
> >the ground, you make get a big surprise =:O Like wise for someone coming
up
> >and touching the car body...
> >
> >There may be some unknown "bleeding edge" "details" to be discovered with
> >this. Wonder how police radar would like it ;-)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Terry
> >
> >At 03:44 PM 7/20/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >>
> >> For a Ground, you could have a wire, or small chain dragging on the
> >ground.
> >> My grampa had a shocker made out of a model-T ignition coil, and did
that
> >for
> >>
> >> a ground.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------------
> >> Jonathon Reinhart
> >> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
> >
> >
>
>
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