Will This Thing Blow Up and Kill Me?
May. 15th, 2015 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI need an adult. Or someone who knows more about high voltage safety than I do.
If I connect this thing up to a couple of wire coat-hanger ends and fire it up to make a kick-ass jacob's ladder, how likely is it to explode in a ball of fire and/or send metal shrapnel toward me at a high rate of speed? I scavenged it from an abandoned building and the output is specced at 15kv.
It wouldn't be my first jacob's ladder; I have another one I built with a neon sign transformer of about half the voltage. I just don't know if there are likely to be internal problems in one this old that's been subject to freeze / thaw cycles. Is this an oil-filled transformer? Does that make a difference?
It would be so pretty!
If I connect this thing up to a couple of wire coat-hanger ends and fire it up to make a kick-ass jacob's ladder, how likely is it to explode in a ball of fire and/or send metal shrapnel toward me at a high rate of speed? I scavenged it from an abandoned building and the output is specced at 15kv.
It wouldn't be my first jacob's ladder; I have another one I built with a neon sign transformer of about half the voltage. I just don't know if there are likely to be internal problems in one this old that's been subject to freeze / thaw cycles. Is this an oil-filled transformer? Does that make a difference?
It would be so pretty!
