TeslaCam
A small video camera mounted on a rotating breakout point of a Tesla coil captures streamers and about the first foot of some 6 foot sparks.
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Only VGA quality at present. I am not keen on putting a higher quality camera up there until I have the shielding optimised. Zapping the camera is a real possibility.
As it spins you see a panorama of my parking area. The shed, shipping container driveway, garage and house appear in turn.
There are some bright spotlights on as well which give the white out at one point.
I hope to redo this Teslacam sometime. A GoPro3 was used for another shot done professionally.
This is the Space Cowboy (aka Chayne Hultgren) doing sparks onto a swallowed sword. Why? For a world record of course. The GoPro Hero is mounted just under the toroid.
Now that I have one of these myself, I should be able to take much higher quality photos and be a lot more creative.
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Photo Date: June 23, 2010