Re: coil at school?

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Original poster: Mark Broker <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org> 

I ran a 6" TC at about 1.8kVA (120V, measured 15-16A, using three 15/30 
NSTs) in my old physics lecture hall many times.  In some pictures I had 
friends take a small spark is very evident between the two aluminum 
chalkboard trays (about a .10" gap) which was about 4 inches above a 10/100 
ethernet port.  The TC was about 8 feet from the wall/chalkboard and had 
50" discharges.  I never heard of any problems....

I also ran the TC in one of the general physics labs that featured PCs 
along each wall the length of the room.  The TC was about 8 feet from 
either rows of monitors.  The PCs were all unplugged.  Only heard of one 
monitor failing, but I honestly don't know if it happened because of me or 
simply because the monitors were 10+ years old.

YMMV.  Use good filters, unplug equipment, and operate as far away from 
equipment as possible.  Water pipes make for acceptable grounds in 
buildings IMO.

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group


On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:16:52 -0700, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

>Original poster: "K Wilson" <teslamap-at-hotmail-dot-com> After making a new 
>secondary coil on the lathe at school, all the professors want me to bring 
>the coil in for a demonstration. But I remember something about coils 
>causing voltage spikes in the mains wiring. I just unplug everything in 
>the house when I run it at home. The tech building has 300 computers that 
>I dont want to have to pay for!
>How can I run the coil at school (or other building)? I have a filter in 
>the mains input, would that be good enough? Keep the RF ground far from 
>the building ground?
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin Wilson
>teslamap-at-hotmail-dot-com
>
>_