When you need a few more kilovolts

ZombieCake

Well-known member
This looks cool.  Stuff played just on Tesla coils and the sound essentially coming from the lightning.  Would be a laugh if you could get a caving lamp or two charged up....
I've an old van de Graaff generator kicking around and a large amount of insanity but I doubt could get anywhere near that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ftp_JR0KEc
 

tony from suffolk

Well-known member
I think that's a rather fine pair of speakers Mr ZombieCake. I'd consider purchasing a pair, but I suspect our dogs might be somewhat alarmed by them.
 

paul

Moderator
Excellent! Could also be used for AC/DC's "Thunderstruck"...


In fact, it has:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F99pdAkEnQ
 

Addy

Member
or OMD - Electricity - Maybe they have a thing about it?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43XLVqjytQ
 

Stuart France

Active member
Or tens of kV.

A really good performer on youtube is electroboom.  Lots of videos including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dje7uhyW23o

Another fun contributor is stryopyro, as at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNisqZOAaAs
including tips on what to do with any surplus MnO2.

Always have fun.  And only fun.  Designing my first cave radio, I laid a 5x4m loop antenna coil on the living room floor and energized it.  Smoke, and vapourised copper tracks from circuit board!  Not to be discouraged easily, I repaired it and tried again.  Measured 5kV across it!  Definitely not for damp caves.

 

pwhole

Well-known member
About thirty years ago in San Francisco I was fortunate to meet Mark Pauline, of Survival Research Laboratories, who build big dangerous machines with lots of fire and noise, and he told me about an electronic 'gun' he was constructing that could knock out the power of a specific building a long, long way away - if it was ever used, which he promised it wouldn't ever be! I went to a show the next week they were doing in the Mission district, and the police and  the fire department closed down the whole block - so they could do the piece uninterrupted. They do things differently over there. He did tell me about working with Tesla coils then, but on his site the only mention is of a 'guest machine' by Greg Leyh, which does link to a pretty spiffy video on his site.

The main SRL site (with archives of all their amazing machinery), and then the other one - Lightning on Demand (great name):

https://www.srl.org/about.html

http://www.lod.org/index.html
 
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