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by F_r_k
2399 days ago
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I'm sorry, but I don't believe one bit of your story. Ohm's law dictates that it's be impossible for your HV generator (neon transformer) to outpout a HV voltage when connected to the grid (you'd need thousands of kWs). Just impossible |
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Feel free to contact Riny Assink who was my boss / co-founder at the time for corroboration, I'm pretty sure he will remember because (1) it was a pretty memorable occasion in its own right, (2) the neon installation was intended to be used on a trade show the next day and my action meant we did not get to use one of our nicer eye catchers which really pissed him off, (3) he built the stuff that I blew up in the weeks leading up to the event, which pissed him off even more. I'm sure a bit of googling will turn up contact info for him.
As for Ohm's law, when dealing with large transformers made for 50Hz dumping the full charge of a (pretty beefy) HV power supply into the low end of a circuit looks roughly like a lightning strike would, only with a much lower amount of Joules behind it. So it's not so much Ohm's law but Maxwell. Chances are some protection circuitry said 'better safe than sorry' and disconnected.
FWIW when you receive a bit of data that contradicts your knowledge and assumptions in general the more interesting bits of knowledge are found by asking how things could have happened rather than to disbelieve a priori the facts as presented by eye witnesses. I have fuck all to gain from relating this story, and would happily stake my reputation on it being 100% the truth without any embellishment whatsoever. The whole reason I told it is because the person I replied to made roughly the same claim that you did.
I agree that it should not be possible, and yet it happened.