Cooking Hot Dogs With Tesla Coils

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[thisissic]

mmmm the hotdogs are almost ready master, MWA HAH HA HAAAAA!!

[gigagamer16]

yes thank you igor. MUAHAHAHAHA

[crazeman5522]

Nope sorry your wrong on that the current in a coil of that size would kill you.

[hghorbani]

If you touch the same voltage (several kV)but with low frequency or DC it would kill you for sure. Your nervous system completely stops working. DC current burns the tissue that it has passed not only the skin.

[hghorbani]

Hello.

When I say it is not dangerous, I mean electrically. The heat of the plasma in the arc can burn your finger, but just the area that has touched the arc.

Not being dangerous means that the current that passes the body does not damage flesh or interupt the nurveous system. If you measure the current that passes your body most likely you would see that it is much bigger than 50 mA that is the withstand current of human body for frequencies around 50 Hz.

[crazeman5522]

I have a 3 foot solid state tesla coil and you can cook meat with it and your fingers!

trust me ive done it!

[netfryer]

Basically the original machine consisted of a baseplate of prefabulated ammulite surrmounted by a logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in direct line with a panemetric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that sidefumbling was prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus o deltoid type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots in the stator. I have a PhD in "ICALLBULLSHIT"

[hghorbani]

I see. It sounds very strange or even non sense the first time you hear about it. It is not very easy to understand even for electrical engineers.

It potentially can be very dangerous of course but the fact is that the danger in this frequencies (100 kHz) is much less than the normal grid frequency (50 or 60 Hz). In very high frequencies the electricity will kind of pass the body like a radio signal so it has much much less effect on the body.

[hghorbani]

The difference of this case with lighting is that lighting is not sinusoidal but impulse, so it has all low and high frequencies. It is not really very easy to explain it to you except you are electrical engineer or have good knowledge in this field.

Any way, if you are curious about this subject (which I find it very interesting) I might be able to help you to gather some information about it.

Regards

[hghorbani]

No dear friend I am not dumb. I am a High Voltage Engineering scientist. The fact that it does not hurt human is for sure but there are different reasoning for it.

In ac electricity the amplitude and the frequency both mater a lot. Normal electricity is 230 V, 50 Hz in Europe and 110V 60 Hz in the USA.

The frequency of the Tesla coil output is 100 kHz -150 kHz which is pretty high.

one reasoning is the so called "Skin Effect" in conductors; other reasoning is the capacitance of the cells.