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I know i just had mine! I was messing with my sstc, and my father walked in. I was touching the sparks and stuff and then i fried a string of 3 resistors. He asked "Why does that burn resistors but not hurt you?". So he touched it once, and pulled his hand back. Then he did it again, and started yelling in pain! He didn't get an arc to the hand, just the threadlike streamers. He walked away while saying "You gotta be kidding me"! It was so funny.
This just made me want more funny tesla coil stories, so here is a place to post them :P.
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ROFL funny, but doesn't touching the arc damage nerves? This isnt to do with a tesla coil but quite frequently when I have friends over they'll pick up a capactior from my coilgun, putting their hands all over the terminals, and say "Whats this do?" and ill reply "Its a capacitor, if it was charged you'd be dead right now you idiot!" (They were in my electonics class so they should know what it is and how dangerous it is)
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Ha, perhaps next time you should charge it? Teach them a lesson? LOL no do not do that.
Yea, it damages nerves apparently, but i still do it for unknown reasons . Seems that it has never damaged my nerve. but then again i have very rough and thick skin on my hands, so i dont feel the sparks anyway :P.
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By no means the funniest, but it was funny at the time.
I was characterizing a coil with a generator and a scope, plotting out the frequency response by hand and not paying much attention to anything else. I was getting ready to take a measurement when it totally dropped off the screen "What the F*$(" I started messing around with the test setup, then I noticed my dad had walked in the room and was a few feet away from the coil, just enough to degrade the measurement, so I chuckled and motioned for him to back up a bit. I told him I literally saw him walk into the room!
He was surprised how sensitive a coil is at 4 feet, and I showed him how it could be used as a proximity sensor.
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everything related to this coil
from the fact that I constructed it in the first place, to me making that video with Queen as the background music... and my slightly delayed reaction when it blew up
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Funniest tesla coil experience?
. Seems that it has never damaged my nerve. but then again i have very rough and thick skin on my hands, so i dont feel the sparks anyway :P.
