Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: How Do I Build "Electric Shocker" Message-ID: <4263@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 27 Apr 88 14:05:06 GMT References: <8287@oberon.USC.EDU> <2763@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Distribution: na Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In article <2763@saturn.ucsc.edu> spcecdt@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Space Cadet) writes: I once purchased an electronics kit with a Free Mystery Gift - "A Mystery Shock Box" It was a cardboard box covered with two pieces of foil. Inside was a battery, a coil, and a nail that had spiral groves. The bottom was painted/insulated. The nail was inserted into a metal connector so that when the box was down, the insulated part of the nail touched the connector. When the box was picked up, The nail dropped down and jiggled against the round contact, making and breaking contact. It might have been a transformer instead of a coil. Anyhow, when you picked it up, you got quite a kick! I made something similar with a relay, wiring it like a buzzer. I was never able to make one of these that was: Quiet Could work over a distance (i.e. up the sleeve) I will try a 555 and audio transformer. Question: how far away can the wires be from the transformer? -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett