OT: Really Big Jacobs-Ladders

O. Sharp ohh at drizzle.com
Sun Sep 5 00:32:06 CDT 2004


It's somewhat off-topic, but judging by the joy everyone got out of CD 
destruction I thought it would go over well anyway.  :)  MPEGs of a pair 
of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional, power-line Jacobs Ladders 
(one of them three-phase, the other producing a prolonged 50-foot arc) 
and also a little movie about what happens when your neighborhood 
transformer shorts to ground:

     http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm

There's also a link at the bottom of the page to show how to shrink coins 
using about 100,000 amps of pulsed magnetic field. It's nice to know 
there are other people out there having fun too.  :) :)

                  -O.-




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