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davidf560

Here's an acquaintance of mine playing with a musical Tesla coil and a propane blowtorch:

https://youtu.be/M91AYp3_x5k?t=122

He also has some small tabletop-sized coils that are really neat:

https://youtu.be/li3rGKFfQ1A?t=18

And here's the Ghostbusters theme at one of their performances while spectators are standing inside the cage:

https://youtu.be/bTkjgBRiCsE?t=2198

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Towards the end of that first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M91AYp3_x5k&feature=youtu.be... he definitely gets struck by the arc, which makes me question what the point of the metal suit is. Is it just for show, to make it look more dangerous?

My understanding is that the frequency is such that it doesn't interact with anything in the human body neither the heart nor the nervous system but I would expect that an arc to the eye would cause some amount of UV damage.

If you're referring to where it appears to hit his head, he actually has on a "helmet" of sorts that's made out of rows of thin wire, so the arc is actually hitting that. The suit is not just for show - my understanding is it would be very dangerous to stand that close to those coils otherwise.

I don't know all the ins and outs of the safety of interacting with these things, but I do think one concern if you were to get hit by one of the arcs is skin burns.

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