Re: Hood Ornament

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <presence-at-churchofinformationwarfare-dot-org>

Come on. You folks are too paranoid. You can grab the output of a small coil
with your bare hand. A car is probably a better ground than a person. I
doubt you would get some killer shock from touching the vehicle.

CO2 fire extinguishers can give you nasty shock. Big deal.

KEN

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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: RE: Hood Ornament


> Original poster: "Pete Komen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>
>
> 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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