26 Aug
2015
26 Aug
'15
12:45 p.m.
On 2015-Aug-26, at 12:13 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Also, when I was a kid, I was playing around with a Jacob's Ladder I had
made using a old vibrator-equipped Ford spark coil (I may still have
that around), and I had a telegraph key as a switch. Welll, one day I
was adjusting the ladder electrodes when my elbow hit the telegraph key.
I was knocked flat on my back off of my chair, several feet back from
the table.
Funny, just last week at the radio museum, a fellow member brought in a Model T Ford spark
coil, in rather rough condition, and we did just that: connected it up and managed to get
a (small) Jacob's Ladder out of it. (Though the one made from a large neon-sign
transformer is a little more impressive.)