Progress... has been made on Mason and I's Jacob's Ladder Project.
Today we hooked up our 12,000 Volt Neon Sign Transformer with No-GFI ( Ground Force Indicator ) to a stripped wall socket wire. We connected the black wire to the hot side, and the white wire to the neutral side... The green wire is for the ground, but a ground is not necessary in making a Jacob's Ladder. I fastened a paper-clip, using a pair of pliers, to the tip of a drum stick. When plugged in we used the drum-stick-paper-clip devise to check to see if the Neon Sign Transformer was working. When the metal conductor ( paper clip ) was close enough to the electrodes we saw small arch's and heard an electric noise. We concluded that the Transformer was working properly, but we forgot to connect the electrodes together to make the arch larger.
*** and we are going to fix that and repost the results! (with pictures)
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