At 4:28 PM -0800 12/2/2010, Clark Martin wrote:
The tires are not made of pure rubber. They are made from a blend
of rubber, synthetics, metallics, etc. Then there are those pesky
steel belts. IOW, your tires are *great* conductors. They are
(luckily!) NOT insulators.
Incorrect, tires are not "great" conductors, they are POOR
conductors, what we in the trade would call "Resistors".
Back in the day, in electronics class in HS, we did some, um, tests,
firing up things like CRTs and flourescent tubes from various
sources. Tires do have some resistance... but not that much really.
Slap a wire on a tire and it will fire a CRT right up. Yea, me made
some big tesla coils too...
- Dan.
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