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Killa-X

Sun May 31 2009, 05:49PM

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Mike wrote ...

This is cool but I also picture noobs seeing this and licking the output of their SGTC...

You can lick it? *goes and trys it*

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Mike

Sun May 31 2009, 06:03PM

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Sorry, I should have said *attempt*

Arcstarter

Sun May 31 2009, 06:46PM

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I'm sorry, but I'm dead right now. Please leave any comments to arcstarter.

Can i help you mister?

Anyway. Sstc's are fun to do this with, and if you eat something really salty or put salt on Mr. tongue, maybe you would get firey flaming arcs from your tongue. Sgtc's would not work as well, too much lower current.

I would sure hate to see someone try drawing MOT arcs off of a tongue piercing... I doubt that would happen.

Mads Barnkob

Sun May 31 2009, 07:00PM

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This is abit like lighting your own farts, its impressive and fun until someone looses an eye. You get the picture :)

Steve Conner

Sun May 31 2009, 08:58PM

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I'd love to know how it's possible to lose an eye in a fart lighting accident. Maybe if you got a flashback, you could lose them both :D Anyway, nice work TDU! Obviously don't try this at home folks, unless you're as mental as TDU, etc.

Tesladownunder

Sun May 31 2009, 09:00PM

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MadsKaizer wrote ...

This is abit like lighting your own farts, its impressive and fun until someone looses an eye. You get the picture :)

I don't get the picture at all. Anatomically I am puzzled by your statement.

In reference to sparks onto eyeballs. Unless you have Marty Feldman like exophthalmos, then the risk is low. My glasses are protective.

In this picture the superhero Flash comes in for a closer look......

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Mads Barnkob

Mon Jun 01 2009, 05:23AM

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Tesladownunder wrote ...

MadsKaizer wrote ...

This is abit like lighting your own farts, its impressive and fun until someone looses an eye. You get the picture :)

I don't get the picture at all. Anatomically I am puzzled by your statement.

In reference to sparks onto eyeballs. Unless you have Marty Felman like exophthalmos, then the risk is low. My glasses are protective.

I like you experiments, because you always have a lot of safety considerations, which you have described well with the experiment, I was just thinking that without a grounded wire or similar some might get the impression that humans are immortal to sparks and will hurt themself :)

Flatulance and eyeballs are not more related than me mixing sayings

Renesis

Mon Jun 01 2009, 01:19PM

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My glasses are protective.

Faraday glasses.

With an oxy-acetylen cutter you can experience a burn-in where the flames goes inside the pipes towards the bottle. Perhaps that's what you mean Mads?

Pressure... inside... head... rising... POP!

Arcstarter

Mon Jun 01 2009, 03:32PM

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In reference to sparks onto eyeballs. Unless you have Marty Felman like exophthalmos, then the risk is low.

This brings up a question i was thinking about yesterday. Considering your eyes are wet with a salty liquid, do you think that *if* you where to *happen* to have a spark leap to your eye, it would simply travel along the liquid and cause no harm? Obviously if it was a big coil there is no way your eye would make it, it would melt your retina or something.

By the way, just because i asked this does not mean i am going to go put my eyes on a Tesla coil! I would not do it for a million dollars! Losing an eye (or better yet, both) would pretty much make life pointless.

Tesladownunder

Mon Jun 01 2009, 04:22PM

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Arcstarter wrote ...

This brings up a question i was thinking about yesterday. Considering your eyes are wet with a salty liquid, do you think that *if* you where to *happen* to have a spark leap to your eye, it would simply travel along the liquid and cause no harm? ...

The eye has exquisite sensitivity to pain and is untouchable so there would be intense pain. The corneal lining, to be transparent, is very thin and easily damaged and almost any disturbance (like a bit of welding UV light) will damage this lining. Conversely, it will also heal quickly.
Regarding a salt water lining. I considered this in the "Modern Thinker" experiment with wet clothes but the sparks (from my mini TC) were still surprisingly uncomfortable and I would not have been able to take decent size sparks. Thicker clothing no doubt would have been better but one layer of tee shirt material wet with salt water was not enough.

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