[sdiy] Discharging CRT, was: Modular Video?

[harry]

I had a jacobs ladder at a party (with a lexan shield)
but I left a hole so you could hold a cigarette in to
get a 'light'.

Caught some @sshole about to try it with the cigarette
in his mouth... he was gonna SUCK the arc in...

What do you suppose would happen as the arc blew
out ???

He was a LAWYER... should I have LET him do it ???

Its really a moral dilema... YOU decide   ;^P

H^) harry

PS Are you sure that the CRT has MORE current than the
neon transformer... I'd have bet a lot less, judging from the
size of the flyback transformer VS the neon....  Of course the
frequencies are different....

James Husted wrote:

> I used to do a fair amount of Neon sculpture in collage. I've been shocked
> many times by 15,000 volt neon sign transformers. Not as deadly as a CRT
> power supply (*much* less current). I did a bunch of "Jacob's ladder" based
> pieces. We has a small one in our front room that we used to light
> cigarettes (and etc.) with. The arc would jump and travel up till it
> encountered the cigarette and would light it. Lets say that when some
> "cigarettes" got too small, and one had to get a little too close, that
> shocks happened more often. God I was an idiot when I was younger!
> -J
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