My Home-made Jacob's Ladder
Figured I'd put this here, as there is no high voltage projects category or a general purpose miscellaneous section.
Anyway, I built this today. It's a very rough-and-ready Jacob's Ladder, put together from junk over the course of an hour or two today. It's also not safe, as it's grounded only with a thinly insulated piece of bell wire to an extension cord's GFI plugged into the wall. I do not want to be anywhere near the spark gap if that fails.
The core of the circuit's an old TV's flyback transformer putting out around 10-20 kV DC at some low amperage, so it shouldn't be fatal. Not that I want to find that out.
So, do I gain any geek cred for this?