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Registered Member #1232
Joined: Wed Jan 16 2008, 10:53PM
Location: Doon tha Toon!
Posts: 881
Beleive it or not, most electronic equipment is not designed to withstand operation near to a sparking Tesla Coil!
Any decent equipment for sale in Europe or America will have been through some EMI compliance testing but the fields that stuff is tested to are nowhere near those that cause the air to spontaneously breakdown!
A decent faraday cage around the TC, and a good quality mains line filter (ideally fixed to the wall of the cage) will surely solve the problem. Or do what most people do, unplug the piece of equipment that is malfunctioning, or move the TC further away.
Registered Member #1225
Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
Posts: 2253
I have had similar things happen. Once i made the oven display (PF) which stands for power failure with a sgtc, and while my little brother was playing guitar hero and i was running a vttc it would do the whammy bar for him and while playing Halo3 it would make him look around and walk slowly.
Registered Member #1911
Joined: Mon Jan 05 2009, 06:30PM
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA
Posts: 165
EVERY TIME I run my Tesla coil, the RF interference (via radio waves) screws with the smoke detector that is adjacent to my parents' room's door. They don't appreciate it when I run it late at night in the workshop, outside.
Registered Member #1617
Joined: Fri Aug 01 2008, 07:31AM
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posts: 139
I rarely get problems running a coil near electronic equipment, except two things: The wireless router goes insane always, and if the coil is near my computer, my keyboard's caps-lock light goes on and off randomly.
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