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jenandjuice1111 7 May 24
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Level 5

I love this guy's youtube channel!

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Level 7

Very cool video of a medium power, table top coil in operation.

It's probably about the power range of mine.

Unless you're a real nerd just skip right to 18:00.

Metahuman Level 7 May 26, 2019
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Level 7

Here's one I'm working on right now.

Had a couple of setbacks, with too many other things going on to finish it yet.

I'll post a video of it running when I get it done. Should be impressive.

Metahuman Level 7 May 25, 2019

Yes, I know the toroid is wonky. I'll smooth it out before it's done.

Amazing!!

@jenandjuice1111 thanks!
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Level 9

Yes, voltages are dangerous BUT amperages are true killers, any amperage above approx, 1.6 amps is extremely harmful and may be fatal.

Triphid Level 9 May 25, 2019

You're correct in concept, but your quantity is wrong. The amount of amperage to stop a human heart can be measured in milliamps.

@Metahuman Yes you are correct on that point.

@Triphid of course the resistance of the human body is so high that in order to get milliamps across the heart you would have to have ,oh, I don't know, I can't calculate it off the top of my head because i don't remember what the human body resistance is, i think its in the mega ohm range, not sure how many though, and a lot of it has to do with how it hits you.

I've been hit with 120 volts a lot with no problem. I've been hit with as high as 15000 volts from a neon sign transformer more than once.

And once I almost killed myself when I thought I had a completely discharged high-voltage capacitor and it wasn't.

@Metahuman Big capacitors are impressive. Guy at work once accidentally dropped a large screwdriver on an almost fully-charged one. Result: a BANG heard throughout the whole building and a melted screwdriver.

@Coffeo did it explode? Or just melt the screwdriver? Big capacitors can be like a grenade when they explode.

@Metahuman The capacitor didn't explode, fortunately. Guy was pretty close; could have been nasty.
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Level 7

Well very cool...

Jamespuck Level 7 May 25, 2019
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Level 10

Tesla coil are cool

bobwjr Level 10 May 24, 2019

Agree!

@jenandjuice1111 had a vandegraff generator as a kid also cool

@bobwjr those are sweet too. Probably a little safer as well. Anything involving electrostatics is interesting
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