A 63 second exposure shows a Tesla tree of sparks for Christmas . These come from a 8 foot metal rod which acts as a rotating breakout point that is progressively raised in a spiral so sparks extend from ground level up to a high of about 18 feet. Hoping my umbrella will protect me here.
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This is a flame diode. A hot filament is used to rectify a high voltage in a similar manner to a vacuum tube. Except it didn’t work for me.
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This is a multilayer Tesla Coil. It is a still uncompleted unusual Tesla project. It is a spark gap driven air cored resonant transformer, i.e. Tesla coil.
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First done for Discovery Channel. It used 10 kJ from the capacitor bank to explode a thin (15 thou) iron wire inside a watermelon.
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This is the high voltage vaporisation of an Easter Bunny’s aluminium wrapper. If you are sqeamish, look away now. The Easter bunny meets 50,000 A might be a suitable title.
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Here I explore the noble art of making small change with my early coinshrinking efforts.
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The spanner smashes into the aluminium sheet which is being pushed away by a huge magnetic pulse.
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Ball lightning is the collective name given to a luminous ball that has been reported anecdotally often in association with natural lightning.
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Tesla coil in a briefcase. This is my latest easily portable mini coil which gives 2-3 inch sparks. These are great fun and are generally safe due to the low power.
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Merry Christmas! This is a single photo from a Nikon D70s digital camera and is a 91 second exposure of a real functioning Tesla coil and is the result of perhaps 50 hours of preparation. It is cropped but otherwise completely untouched. It is not, repeat not, photoshopped. It does however achieve the result using special effects which I will explain.
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