Re: [TCML] Secondary Coil Capacitating

[Brandon Hendershot <brandonhendershot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alice,

I imagine that was just a carpet spark lighting it up... I could be wrong.
Hell, I can't even explain my own phenomenon. :P

Brandon

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Alice <alice33@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This reminds me of an odd thing that happened to me with a decorative lamp.
> I touched it one day and it suddenly flashed on for just a split second.  I
> looked and it had been unplugged.  I wondered where that second of juice
> came from.  Is it a similar cause I wonder?
>
> Becky
>
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>
> Hi All,
> I was running my coil tonight, something happened underneath the coil I
> wanted to check out, so I went to move the secondary, and it was shocked me.
> Nothing brutal, just a carpet spark, but it had been off for several
> minutes. Why (How?) is it storing electricity? Is it between the topload and
> counterpoise?
> Thanks guys,
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