Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <PeterCGMN-at-aol-dot-com> 1) The other night I was entertaining with my TC and a question arrised that I could not answer: What makes a Tesla coil so darn loud? 2) Although this is completely unrelated to the first, what would happen if the spark gap was shorted out? (besides the obvious jumper melting thing ;0) 73,Kc0Ion,"Ion-Boy"