The Dr Electric video was used as an intro before the short film festival.
As part of our National partnership with ABC Open we will be screening a local ABC Open short at the start of the Flickerfest programme.
Doctor Electric – dir/prod Ruslan Kulski: By day Peter Terren is a practising medical doctor from Bunbury, WA.
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This is the Plasmasonic, a solid state Tesla coil (DRSSTC) capable of being modulated to music.
Two of these will form the basis of the electronic musical show.
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Here are 11 Australian TV segments about my stuff:
GWN News, Ch 7, April 25 2013 – Sword swallowing and sparks
ABC Open, Oct 12 2013 – A shocking passion
Australia’s Got Talent, Ch 7, 2011
GWN News, Ch 7, Dec 25 2010 – Worlds Brightest Bike lights.
Ten News, Ch 10, 2009 – Cosmology Gallery Opening
A Current Affair, Ch 9, Sept 21 2009 – High voltage power lines.
Today Tonight, Ch 7, May 2009 – Modern Thinker
Today Tonight, Ch 7, Jan 2009 – Tesla coil effects
WIN News Ch 9, Feb 21 2009 – Xmas tree.
WIN News Ch 9, Dec 23 2008 – Australia and 16 other countries “Elec-trickery”
Sunrise, Ch 7, Nov 4 2011 – Ripley’s believe it or not!
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This is a Royer oscillator which is a relatively high power self resonant circuit useful for generating high voltages from flyback or other ferrite transformers. Output is probably around 2000 VAC. The arc stretches out to about an inch at a power of up to 300 W.
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Here is a fast, cheap and generally safe project for beginners sparks with a minimum component count. It uses an ignition coil from a car.
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This voltage multiplier 80 kV has a 5 inch corona with intermittent sparks in this 3 second exposure.
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Car ignition coils make great spark sources. After all they were designed to power a spark plug. Now, put two of them out of phase and the sparks are doubled in size. Here are some examples.
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I needed a voltmeter for HV to be able to be seen from a distance at night. Here is my digital voltmeter with HV probe reading 13.06 kV. “Continue reading” for more details and photos. Continue reading
A nice 60 kV transformer and heavy dual variac for the kids to play with is on my list of high voltage projects to do. Here are some more of them.
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