At 12:02 PM 1/29/04 -0800, you wrote:
   > I think
perhaps it's best for Lyos to maintain his present beliefs about
 > voltage and current.  Over time I'm sure he'll collect more empirical
 > data to either confirm or deny his hypothesis (though quite likely at
 > some cost if he's as stubborn in his beliefs as I suspect the case to
 > be). 
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
  In other words, blows himself up with a
3kV-to-240v electricity pole
 transformer? 
Would that damage the transformer?   (how many amps are those?) 
 
   I believe that they're AT LEAST 1 Amp ON THE 3kV SIDE!  The neon sign
manufacturer's use them to step the 240 back up to 2 or 3 kV at 1 Amp to
burn the gasses out of the glass walls of tubes that they use to make neon
signs with. They run them at ~1 Amp for 24 hours and the tubes are almost
white hot.
   Joe