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Quick Tour

This bank of 3 pulse capacitors fires into some steel wool.

OK – a 2 minute tour.

I am mainly a High Voltage and Tesla coil enthusiast. I like big sparks.
I also have hundreds of other projects here which involve electrical, pulse power, laser, magnetism and other weird stuff. All documented with thousands of photos.
Some of the high voltage photos are unique artistic creations and have appeared on TV around the world.

Right that was 10 seconds….

Tesla Full Bright 1000

Best projects:
Check out a 16,000 Joule 12,000 volt capacitor bank for hugely powerful discharges. Half a gigawatt of peak power used for Can crushing, coinshrinking, exploding wires, exploding watermelons and many other experiments. Perhaps look at the Xmas tree 2009, the Red Alert Tesla coil, Jacob’s Bi-ladder, making liquid oxygen, Discovery Channel videos of my stuff, my new record spark length of 11 feet, multicolored sparks, the Tesla Envy video – up VERY close to huge sparks, Dalek cageswimming with 100,000 volts, video of car theft protection, “Eye of Sauron” and a sparks for beginners project with only 3 components.

 

Other capacitor banks with electronic switching drive projectile devices such as a rail gun and coil gun. Other HV stuff stuff includes voltage multipliers, Van de Graaff generator, Jacobs ladder, lifters and other high voltage supplies. Various lasers including a homemade ultraviolet nitrogen laser, NdYAG, HeNe, Blu-ray laser, and CO2. Also magnetohydrodynamic drive800 A spotwelder, huge smoke rings, liquid nitrogen, ferrofluid, magnetic levitation, miscellaneous electronic projects and a few half baked ideas…
I did a modern interpretation of Tesla’s famous photo with his wireless light globe. My performance in the heats of Australia’s Got Talent. Highlights in recent months include work on a proposal to NASA to view my light from Space. The light is used on the World’s brightest LED bike light (below) and World’s brightest portable LED flashlight . Also see the Xmas tree 2010. Had a visit from SteamPunk enthusiasts for a night of Tesla goodness.

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So spend the next 50 seconds flipping through some photos and you’re done…

Dr Electric on Australia's Got Talent

Scorpion Large UV

 

LED Bike full power into trees.
Above, the World’s most powerful LED bike light

Xmas Santa Bike Media version
Merry Christmas folks ! That’s what we’re like downunder.

Worlds brightest flashlight colours on lighthouse

The World’s brightest LED flashlight shown above lighting a lighthouse.

Ophthalmic Laser

Nd : YAG Medical 3 W 1064 nm ophthalmic Laser

Ex medical ophthalmic (eye) class IV laser Nd:YAG 3W 20ms 15J, Q switched 12ns 0.2J with HeNe 0.1 mW. It weighs 400 kg including a solid pallet.
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Electrolytic Capacitor Bank 1.5 kJ

Flash from 1.5 kJ capacitor bank

This electrolytic capacitor bank 1.5 kJ has SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) switching to control peak currents of thousands of amps.  Mostly to make big bangs but also to drive projectile devices such as a rail gun and coil gun.
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Railgun 1

Railgun 1 maybe

A proof of principle railgun 1 uses a high current to force a conductor outwards. A railgun is a method of converting electrical power into kinetic energy of a metal projectile. “Continue reading” for more details. Continue reading

Measurement of High Current Pulses

Measurement of high current pulses with can crushing. CRO showing current (upper trace) and voltage (lower)

Measurement of High Current Pulses (or my multimeter doesn’t have a 100,000 amp scale). The upper trace shows a peak current of two squares (20,000 A) and lower trace a peak voltage of nearly 2 squares of around 5 kV. Note how the current lags behind the applied voltage.
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Can Crusher 4

Can Crusher 5kJ Can Crusher 4 using a pulse capacitor bank rated up to 10 kJ. Time to get serious! My big caps have arrived. Total stored energy with all charged to capacity is 10 + 10 + 8 = 28 kJ.
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Tesla Coil 6-Inch

Tesla coil 6-inch with 8 foot sparks

This 6 inch coil has been a dramatic performer with sparks reaching 8 feet.
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