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Subject: Re: Jacob's Ladders
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 13:49:55 EDT
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In article <1249@utastro.UUCP>, butch@utastro.UUCP (Allan Butcher) writes:
> 
>   Does anybody know how to make a Jacob's Ladder ???  

I made one as a kid in high school.  I went to a Neon Sign place
(look in the Yellow Pages under "Signs").  They always seem to have
lots of old neon signs laying around in the back.  I bought a used
transformer from them.  It was about the size of an anvil and weighed
as much, cost me around $10 I guess.  Took in 110 volts and put out
12,000 volts.  Then a couple of wires from the output in the shape of
a V (I think I stripped some 10 or 12 gauge wire) and I was in business.

After watching it for a while and burning little holes in paper held
between the two wires, I couldn't figure out what else to do with
it and was pretty scared of getting electrocuted, so I put it off in
my parent's garage and I suspect it is still there (20 years later).

-- 
James Peterson
peterson@mcc.com  or  ...sally!im4u!milano!peterson