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The Silverliner himself and a very cool experiment!
That's yours truly holding a T12 fluorescent being energized by the Tesla coil in the electrical class! You can feel the juice sizzing through the glass in the tube! BTW the tube is an '88 vintage red etch GE F40/CW/WM/RS.
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The Silverliner himself and a very cool experiment!

That's yours truly holding a T12 fluorescent being energized by the Tesla coil in the electrical class! You can feel the juice sizzing through the glass in the tube! BTW the tube is an '88 vintage red etch GE F40/CW/WM/RS.

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FGS   [Mar 03, 2011 at 01:46 AM]
Is that motor that huge or is it just close to the camera?
Silverliner14B   [Mar 03, 2011 at 01:51 AM]
Yes it is pretty big, its actually a motor driven generator.
Form109   [Mar 03, 2011 at 01:57 AM]
induce?....more like the voltage exceeding the dielectric strength of the air...i don't think that's a magnetic field your feeling,it's a small electric field around the tube.
TiCoune66   [Mar 03, 2011 at 02:08 AM]
Really? Then how could air-core inductors work? Razz
Form109   [Mar 03, 2011 at 03:17 AM]
the coils do generate a magnetic field but i doubt you'd feel a magnetic field unless your made of metal. Smile
TiCoune66   [Mar 03, 2011 at 03:24 AM]
Alright then, let's state it otherwise: What ELSE it could be? XD
GullWhiz   [Mar 03, 2011 at 04:11 AM]
I have touched two leads of bare wire that had 17KV coming out!!!! I was wearing high voltage lineman gloves to get to know the feel...
dor123   [Mar 03, 2011 at 11:14 AM]
This telsa coil, looks different than the common style of telsa coils.
The power to this lamp, come directly from the very high voltage/current arc of the coil and not from static electricity, so the lamp should be glows very brightly.
streetlight98   [Nov 04, 2012 at 04:53 PM]
Is it true that electromagnetic fields can cause cancer with prolonged exposer to them? I doubt it but that's what my mom keeps telling me. Neutral Confused
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 16, 2012 at 03:52 PM]
Pardon my ignorance but the lamp still works normally after this right? Or was this a spent lamp?
A_lights   [Nov 16, 2012 at 05:21 PM]
im sure it works normally, basically the same thing as when i run a fluorescent lamp on my NST

very cool experiment Idea
Silverliner14B   [Nov 16, 2012 at 05:21 PM]
Yep the lamp's fine.
Antstar85   [Nov 16, 2012 at 08:14 PM]
working near live 345kv, you can feel the induced voltage on just about everything. I have thrown 12'' arcs grounding out de-energized bus in the substations and even from my own tools. most of the time we bond our lift to the bus to prevent this while working on substaion bus.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 17, 2012 at 12:58 AM]
Was this one of your florescent tubes?
I think you look like a mad scientist...were you taking a college electrical class at the time?
chrislights71   [Nov 17, 2012 at 01:37 AM]
Very cool experiments! Very Happy
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 17, 2012 at 01:41 AM]
Was it really dimly lit in there or is it just the camera?
Silverliner14B   [Nov 17, 2012 at 02:16 AM]
Yep it was one of the electrical classes I took. It was not my lamp and yep it was about that dim.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 17, 2012 at 03:30 AM]
The room or lamp?
I'm guessing you were able to speed-date it while zapping it with the Telsa coil...COOL PIC! FIVE STARS!
Silverliner14B   [Nov 17, 2012 at 03:32 AM]
The classroom lights were off (rows of old 2x4 troffers) during this experiment.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 17, 2012 at 03:36 AM]
I thought maybe it was a bunch of failed F34T12s and it looked like one was working by your head...
Pardon my ignorance but you shave right?

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