[Search4Truth]

I thought I was the only one that did that kinda stuff in high school LOL.

What you experienced is called an inductive kickback. The rapid collapse of the magnetic field induced a voltage greater than the voltage that created it. You should have tried it with an old automobile ignition coil. Now that's a real crowd pleaser.

Now I could tell a story about getting hit with a high-energy circuit. It’ll knock you into last month, if not into oblivion.

[Darksheare]

Like 440 AC elevator generators?

[lwoodham]

Yep, I did this too. But mine was a tin foil covered box with a tiny slit that separated the foil into 2 halves with a wire attached to each from inside the box. One wire was connected to 1 end of an 88 mH loading coil and the other end of the coil was connected to a horizontally mounted washer. The other wire from the outer foil was connected to one side of a 9V battery with the other side of the battery connected to a nail that was suspended so that it hang, without touching, through the center of the washer when the box was sitting on a level surfce. If you picked the box up it didn't take you long to inspect it and put it down. I'm guessing about 1 mSec.

[Aric2000]

I used to have an old Plymouth satelite hotrod, had a very HIGH energy coil in it.

I was working in the garage on it one day, and told a friend to kick it over, problem was, I was touching the car with one hand and had the center wire of the distributor in my hand holding it near the head, trying to see the spark, well, IT HAD SPARK!!!

Threw me across the garage, hurt like hell!!