This 300 kg x-ray transformer 60 kV DC at 300 mA has 3 phase 240 V 45 A input. It is capable of making an arc drawn out to 2 feet just on 1 phase 240 V so it is a serious piece of HV gear.
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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.
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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 cage, swimming 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 drive, 800 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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Above, the World’s most powerful LED bike light
Merry Christmas folks ! That’s what we’re like downunder.
The World’s brightest LED flashlight shown above lighting a lighthouse.
A Jacob’s ladder is driven by a voltage boosted microwave oven with a few steel wool sparkles thrown in for effect.
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A Jacob’s Ladder with water electrodes is formed between two streams of salty water and gives a bright orange colour.
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100 kV DC gives 5 inch sparks from a voltage multiplier driven from a dental x-ray transformer.
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A Jacobs ladder is an arc that forms between two upright electrodes that are wider at the top. The arc starts at the bottom and rises with the heat of the arc becoming progressively larger until it “breaks” at the top. It then reignites at the bottom to start over again.
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A dual concentric magnetically driven circular Jacobs ladder. The sparks form in one spot but rotate due to the magnetic field.
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My first Tesla coil using a neon sign transformer with a ferrite cored secondary giving 2 inch sparks. I developed this idea with an old transformer from a dumpster which in retrospect was an old unpotted NST (neon sign transformer). I used a single static gap with a 12 inch ferrite cored coil of 11 primary and 100 turns secondary giving 2 inch sparks with 26 small ceramic capacitors with 2 strings of 13 x 10 nF at 2.5 kV each. It ran nicely for about 20 years! This photo is a mock up with most of the original parts.
I developed this from my first “Tesla coil” discovery while doing a spark spectroscopy project. Years after I made it I heard that Tesla had beaten me to that discovery by quite a few years! This photo is a mock up with most of the original parts.
It now has new life as a Jacob’s ladder.
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Photo Date: Jan 19, 2003