Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucla-cs!sdcrdcf!psivax!csun!polyslo!csustan!elric From: elric@csustan.UUCP (Elric of Imrryr) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Message-ID: <324@csustan.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 01:42:31 EST Article-I.D.: csustan.324 Posted: Sat Dec 13 01:42:31 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 00:59:23 EST References: <4815@reed.UUCP> <823@A60.UUCP> <824@A60.UUCP> <904@sfsup.UUCP> <6204@mhuxu.UUCP> Reply-To: elric@csustan.UUCP (Elric of Imrryr) Organization: Lunatic Laboratories Unltd. Lines: 19 In article <6204@mhuxu.UUCP> davec@mhuxu.UUCP (Dave Caswell) writes: >The tesla coil effects are quite fun. We once lined up about 10 of >the neighborhood kids up (I was pretty young when I built my first >Tesla coil.) and had one end of the line hold the coil, and the >other end held a flourescent tube, which glowed quite brightly. > A friend of mine who was a communication tech in the Airforce once pointed a microwave anntenna at a guy carring an arm load of flourescent tubes, which started to glow, and flicker.... The poor guy dropped the entire load a ran.... Brad -- elric Lunatic Labs @ Csustan {lll-crg,lll-lcc}!csustan!elric cryptography, terrorist, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, AUTOVON NSA, CIA, NRO, KGB, GRU, Mossad, Libyan Hit Squad, assassination, OSI. The above is food for the Intelligence Agencies of the World.