RE: Electricity guy on Ripley's Believe it or Not

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Original poster: "Derek Woodroffe" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Well, I believe it...

Richie Burnett used to do a similar stunt with a low wattage filament bulb.
Using his SSTC

There is a picture of this at the UK Derby 2002 teslathon
http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/derby.html

One end of the bulb is earthed, and richie was holding the other end, He
would then approach a running HF SSTC (but not touch or get close enough for
an arc) until the lamp lit.

There is no pain or sensation in doing this as long as an arc does not form
from the skin to any earthed object. Apart from a feeling of ripple from the
50hz of the not too well smoothed coils psu.

Although there is little sensation, I don't recommend this, there is
probably also no sensation if you put your had into a microwave oven, but
cooking still occurs...

	Derek