It’s lighning season here in Colorado. I’ll see if I can’t get out and do some field research on this one. But I think I need to do the coconut in the bonfire first…
No reason you can’t do them both at the same time. Here’s how you start:
You put the light in the coconut…
I’m going to state that the light glowing is possible but not probable. Given that lightning can posses not only high potential but also high current, a lightning strike could cause enough current and/or emf to transfer some current (same effect as Machine Elf mentioned for Step Voltage) to an incandescent light bulb that was in contact with your body and make it glow.
Since the described method doesn’t necessarily create a certain path for the bolt’s current it is likely that the bolt could hit you, do some major physical damage (hamburger) your body, and never send one milliamp through the bulb.
It’s an ambiguous result mainly due to the close proximity of the light bulb’s terminals to each other and the facts that your body probably won’t /can’t create a dedicated circuit for those terminals nor would the step voltage be high enough to send enough current through the filament.
Bubbadog
Official Electric Type guy
Why would anybody want to be an *anode[/i[?
some are just givers and others not. i’m more a grid type myself, it’s cooler.