LIGHTNING ON THE LAYOUT!

I'm not even going to ask why it was in the bedroom! 

Van de Graf generators are cool.  I haven't played with one in years.  I agree it is probably a good idea to shut it down when running trains, but Gomex Addmas would have loved it.

Sparks in the train room, no more sparks in the bedroom.

Time marches on.....

Boy, if I were running any type of command control I would not be running your generator for fear of random electric pulses getting into the command system.  On my layout I use two strobe light generators with random flashes timed so then do not go off at the same time.

Where did you people get the idea that I had the lightning machine in my master BEDROOM?

Read my post again, slowly and carefully...where did I say I had it?      Jeez.....

Rip Track

1.12 Megavolt Van De Graaff, 30" sphere, self-designed & built except for sphere, which was made by a metal-spinning company in 2 hemispheres.  Charge belt driven by 1/4 HP motor.

400KV commercial Van de Graaff, 14" oblate spheroid.

Self-designed and built Bonetti Machine, 300KV, 9" copper sphere. (Note the 200KV VDG use for inducing the charge on the 25" counter-rotating discs.)

Commercial Wimshurst Machine, 75 KV.

Commercial Van de Graaff machine, 600KV

"Why did I install this machine within my layout?"

1. To create interest with visitors
2. Makes one heck of nighttime special effect
3. No room in the Master bath
4. You like it there

Very accurate assessment, Moonman, AND you got the room right! 

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Well, why did you place it in the layout? You have us on the edge of our seats.

Does it mess with the "hi-fi" in the corner?

Well, that's one way to get a realitic lighting storm in the desert....

HEY MOONMAN:

Well, you can all shift back to your soft seat cushions.

I moved the VDG there because it was cramping the other corner of the game room, where I needed space for a storage cabinet.

RIP (repair in position) TRACK

HEY MARK,

HAR HAR HAR!

Why that's a Blender, you funny person!

[Four-string tenor banjo, anyone?]

Rip Track Hal

HEY LIMA,

That's one of my 15" stereo speakers cabinets.  The other one is 20 feet to the left in the other corner.

The Music System is in the diagonally opposite corner, 31 feet away, far removed from the electrostatic field of the VDG.

RIP TRACK HAL