Russ Williams wrote in a message to BILL BAUER:
 BB> technology. I don't know how much different their high voltage 
 BB> pulses differ from my experiment of hooking a 12,000 volt neon 
 BB> transformer producing 30 mills of current across a car battery. 
 BB> I observed absolutely nothing happening when I did that for 
 BB> maybe 3 or 4 minutes,
Hmm,  somehow or other I never saw this message here...
 RW> Hi Bill,  You may want to check that transformer--I think it 
 RW> would see the battery as a dead short unless you included a 
 RW> spark gap in the circuit.  Those sign transformers are too 
 RW> easily ruioned by shorting the secondary.  (I have 2 dead ones 
 RW> due to shorted capacitors on my Tesla coil.)
Ruined how?  I thought those were pretty well current-limited,  no?  Did the 
primary or secondary fail?
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