Scuff, scuff, ZAP! ZAP!

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Use the charge to light an NE2 bulb and do be careful fueling your car!

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Back in older days, before MOSFETs and Gan/InGaN LEDs, I thought wintertime low relative humidity indoors was often a fun time!

You probably saw and showed off what neon lamps and fluorescent lamps can do from this in more youthful times, didn't you? I surely did!

How about charging rubber balloons by rubbing them on your hair or on clean wool clothes, and then sticking them to things?

Charging up homebrew high voltage capacitors, and then showing lightning-like bright sparks? Back in my youth, I made capacitors with emptied "Elmer's" brand glue bottles as dielectric, aluminum foil as outer plate, and salt water as inner plate, with a wire through the spout into the saltwater. My mother even pointed out how I messed up my hair rubbing balloons on my hair for charging these up, for whatever purposes I did way back then...

My glue bottle capacitors easily delivered very shocking shocks, but I outgrew those when I needed to make better use of my spare time!

Then we should call you Noah?

Hold a piece of metal in your hand when you touch something. You still get an arc, but the current on your finger is spread out.

George H.

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Tutankhamun ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Remember: Once you go over the hill, you pick up speed

An employer once had one air conditioning unit in the building stick on. The other units scaled back, so the temperature was still 75F, but all the water was being frozen out of the air. Walk up to your desk...POW! Sit too closely to the CRT...POW! All that ESD was dangerous to the computers because it caused people to drop their drinks.

Act your age! Tutankhamun wasn't even thought of! ;-)

Like the cat? She'd get major annoyed when you stuck ballons to her. And she'd also generate her own static. We have a large wood stove in the living room, she'd go up and sniff it, and you'd hear a 'snap' and she'd jump back... That was our warning that we needed to raise the humidity indoors, and her warning to stop sniffing the stove.

Get a jug of Downey fabric softener, and mix it about 1/2 to 1 cup of it to a quart of water, and use a spray bottle a la plant mister.

Mist your carpets with it.

Good Luck! Rich

When my Mom died in Minnesota about 10 years ago, I took my inheritance and headed out for California where I had a job waiting for me. On the way, I stopped off at the Indian Casino, Mystic Lake, just south of Shakopee and took the car to valet parking. When I got out of the car and handed my keys to the attendant, we drew about a 1" static spark between our fingers.

I think it was from my pants on the car seat.

We used to stick balloons to everything when I was a kid. :-)

What's cool is using a hard rubber comb and picking up either little scraps of paper or grains of ground pepper - first, they're attracted, then when the charge drains off, the particles JUMP off the comb! :-)

Cheers! Rich

You reinvented the Leyden jar! ;-D

Cheers! Rich

Get the version of Downey without perfume or dye...perhaps that's 'Downey Ultra'.

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Now you finally know what phssst ... *BANG* is :-)

Naaaah! I just know how to annoy the cat ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Remember: Once you go over the hill, you pick up speed

Happened with our labrador. I petted her on the back, afterwards she sniffed my hand, or wanted to ... *POP* ... Not having an EE degree she did not understand why.

Jim Thompson expounded in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Our cats shrink away every time I try to pet them now. Especially when zaps to the ears occur.

Warren

That's BANG, Phssssst!, something completely different.

-- Cheers, James Arthur