For the Home Open day 2010, I got in the pool and also exploded watermelons. I had the usual array of projects set up indoors and various high voltage displays behind barriers. The Tesla coil was the highlight and double exposures under the Tesla coil were popular. There were about 70 people who came through. Maybe it was the free beer…
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Dr Electric plays Happy Birthday for Nikola Tesla with, of course, a Tesla coil and a piano.
Michael demonstrates a new meaning for electric piano.
Let’s look at the setup. First take a common or garden variety Tesla coil…
Place it on large driveway. Add ladder and cage. Be sure you understand that one you stay in, one you stay up and the other you stay back from.
Add a piano then add subtle electrical protection to protect the fine wood from sparks.
Hastily cover up when rain threatens. But under every rainbow is… ( sometimes a Tesla coil).
An unmanned test flight.
Michael is not at all worried by his first time in the cage – yeah right.
The piano was untouched. It was covered by a fine metal mesh which was earthed, along with the frame of the piano. Also not seen are very fine wires taped in unseen areas to catch errant sparks. These are pointed towards the camera to make them even harder to see. It is still sitting on the dolly we used to get it out of the house.
This setup was a piece of cake compared with putting the piano in the middle of a grassy field for one of my Michael’s piano improvisations a few weeks ago.
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Photo Date: July 11, 2012
