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Tesla coil jam.

Post by analoghaze » Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:18 pm

broken link...
see below.
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by nuno » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:05 pm

Now THAT's old school Analogue! Lol

Outstanding!

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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by thealien666 » Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:00 pm

All that's missing is a Moog/Tesla lowpass filter ! But you'd need a pretty powerful transistor ladder to filter out these high voltage harmonics !!! :shock:
I can just imagine the smell of ozone after such a performance... :mrgreen:
Thanks for the interesting link. :D
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by Kevin Lightner » Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:40 am

I can only imagine the number of high tech electronics nearby that get zapped by things like this.
And if Tesla got his way as far as power distribution, half of us would have already died from cancer.
Still, Tesla was quite the genius.
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by analoghaze » Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:34 am

that link may not work anymore.
try this.

http://www.trendyink.net/blog/2010/unca ... sla-coils/
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by _DemonDan_ » Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:24 am

thealien666 wrote:I can just imagine the smell of ozone after such a performance... :mrgreen:
At a live Tesla Coil performance at Sweetwater, the smell almost got a
lot worse when a streaker ran past the coils during the performance. :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-xrrp5gms
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by thealien666 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:09 pm

One other thing, you certainly don't need a PA system to have this thing heard !! :shock:
But you can only have one waveform: pulse. But what a pulse !! :shock:

Finally, that streak fool (no relation whatsoever with Synthfool :mrgreen: ) must have had all the hairs on his body upright after passing this close to those towers. No to mention the potential dangers of getting zapped in the wrong place ! Impotence guaranteed after that. :roll:
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by Voltor07 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:26 pm

I've always wanted to use a Tesla coil as an amp. Don't remember the site, but there's this guy who builds and sells singing MIDI compatible Tesla coils. They are expensive, though. 8)
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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by Rob Smith » Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:51 am

Kevin Lightner wrote:I can only imagine the number of high tech electronics nearby that get zapped by things like this.
And if Tesla got his way as far as power distribution, half of us would have already died from cancer.
Still, Tesla was quite the genius.
They are trying to save his laboratory in Shoreham Long Island about 45 minutes east of my home.
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday ... -1.3925744 Link # 2 http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suff ... -1.3918899

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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by Flip » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:04 pm

how are they doing that?

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Re: Tesla coil jam.

Post by Kevin Lightner » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:44 pm

Rob Smith wrote:
Kevin Lightner wrote:I can only imagine the number of high tech electronics nearby that get zapped by things like this.
And if Tesla got his way as far as power distribution, half of us would have already died from cancer.
Still, Tesla was quite the genius.
They are trying to save his laboratory in Shoreham Long Island about 45 minutes east of my home.
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday ... -1.3925744 Link # 2 http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suff ... -1.3918899

I hope they meet their goal.
The area is accessible by many and the man is an inspiration to young scientists to come.
It's unfortunate that he's mostly noted as some madman who sat amongst lightning bolts.
While that's dramatic, his many other inventions and theories were much more important and practical.
Thanks for the link, Rob.
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