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In article <rlcarr.09j9@animato.network23.com> Rich Carreiro,
rlcarr@animato.network23.com writes:
>(4) As for more mundane high voltages, what's a good place to get
something
>    to push 120 Volts to say, 15-20KVolts?  I've heard that transformers
that
>    drive neon lights (like in bars and stores) are good for this.  Are
there
>    any other sources?   Where do science museums get the transformers
they
>    use for things like Jacob's Ladder displays, for example?
>

 In high school (in my much stupider days) we used an old oil
burner transformer and two metal coat hangers to make a jacobs 
latter.
    
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  Worked pretty well and I old was only shocked once. 

   -Jeff Luszcz
    cc2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu