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From: edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Jacob's Ladder
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Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 15:48:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  1 15:48:43 1985
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	I once built one in high school. It was physics class and we got
the day off. Heh Heh.
	Anyway, I used a little ~20,000 volt transformer that we normally
used to run some gas discharge tubes. (Is that the right name? You know,
glass tubes filled with various gasses. Different gasses make different
colours.) My 'ladder' wires had to start about 1/4" apart and the arc
rarely got more than an inch long. Nothing like these 3 inch muthers
you see in evil scientist's labs.

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