Pictures from the 9th Uk Teslathon, Cambridge.
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Thought that I'd just share a few pictures from the 9th Uk Teslathon..
& a video of course.. [youtube][/youtube]
This is how I'm getting on with mine..
Have done lots more work since this photo was taken though.. That box is just a mock-up for a clear acrylic one instead. The strike rail is also a size mock-up.
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& a video of course.. [youtube][/youtube]
This is how I'm getting on with mine..
Have done lots more work since this photo was taken though.. That box is just a mock-up for a clear acrylic one instead. The strike rail is also a size mock-up.
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Going to make some lighting are you Max? If some one wants to impress me with one of these, I want the arc to be 2 inchs in diameter and 100 yards long! Controled that is.......
Very cool Max!! I've contemplated building one of these for literally dozens of years....good on ya!!
Looks like you're well on your way there. Keep us posted on your progress.
Looks like you're well on your way there. Keep us posted on your progress.
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It shoild cost a further £150 ($300) or so to finish..Most expensive components are the capacitors. Ridiculously expensive, even by eBay standards.
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Seeing, that makes me want to put that up a spudgun's back hole and turning it on for the explosion... If you touch do you like get injured?
It's Nerf or Nothing.
Don't start crying when I play this as my hobby, Paintball, Airsoft and Nerf are equally good hobbies, except you can play Nerf in public. Good day! Hmph!
Don't start crying when I play this as my hobby, Paintball, Airsoft and Nerf are equally good hobbies, except you can play Nerf in public. Good day! Hmph!
Looks like he's just polishing his rod to stick into that high voltage generator beside him.markfh11q wrote:The guy with the piece of pipe and the wool cloth looks so out of place...
Where was this anyways? I'm in Cambridge myself.
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It was right next to the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
http://www.cam.net.uk/home/steam/
That's a Wimshurst Generator, it creates an electrostatic charge by rubbing two Acrylic discs against eachother.
He's attempting to introduce electrons onto the two discs by creating a negative charge on the pole, just like how you rub a balloon on your jumper.
One guy, Nick..His Solid State Tesla Coil went a bit hay-wire and a streamer hit his hand. Burnt a hole right from one side of his palm to the other.
They're called High Frequency Burns. I'm not sure what would happen on a Spark Gap Tesla Coil, probably the same thing I imagine..
http://www.cam.net.uk/home/steam/
That's a Wimshurst Generator, it creates an electrostatic charge by rubbing two Acrylic discs against eachother.
He's attempting to introduce electrons onto the two discs by creating a negative charge on the pole, just like how you rub a balloon on your jumper.
One guy, Nick..His Solid State Tesla Coil went a bit hay-wire and a streamer hit his hand. Burnt a hole right from one side of his palm to the other.
They're called High Frequency Burns. I'm not sure what would happen on a Spark Gap Tesla Coil, probably the same thing I imagine..
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I'm a little too familiar with high-frequency burns. I still couldn't imagine getting one all the way through my hand, though.
EDIT - and maxus, I know what he was doing. I'm just saying it looks a little out of place/funny in the middle of all the other experiments.
EDIT - and maxus, I know what he was doing. I'm just saying it looks a little out of place/funny in the middle of all the other experiments.
WTFMaxuS the 2nd wrote:Burnt a hole right from one side of his palm to the other.
An actual hole? Jeez, bet that stung a bit.
I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
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On the contrary..jonnyboy wrote:I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
A very small hole from side to the other. Only through a small amount of skin, but a hole none-the-less.
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Describing it that way makes it sound even more dodgyHotwired wrote:Looks like he's just polishing his rod
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
OUCH I thought it just burned both sides.MaxuS the 2nd wrote:On the contrary..jonnyboy wrote:I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
A very small hole from side to the other. Only through a small amount of skin, but a hole none-the-less.
mobile chernobyl wrote:I can shoot a Canuter Valve off my '82 Chevy Ram F150 AT LEAST 3/4 Mile with 'ma cannon made of soup cans duct taped together, then I just squirt some bacardi 151 in the chamber and hold up my cigarrete lighta and WHOOSH! That thing flies at least 3/4 mile