A number of hi res images have been included here in higher resolution. Feel free to use with attribution. Most normal images on this site are 1000 pixels wide and are are perhaps 200 k in size. If you need a bigger one for print media then ask me and I may be able to get a bigger resolution one.
This can crusher display crushes cans in milliseconds using a very high current pulse.
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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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Jacob’s Ladder
Photo Date: July 11, 2012
Dr Electric did a show at the Perth Town Hall as a side attraction for the Nikola Tesla Museum of Belgrade in 2011.
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The Gold Remi award is a filmakers award for the first of the Discovery Channel segments. It’s not that big – there are hundreds of then. It scored an article in the South Western Times.
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This is my take on one of Tesla’s famous photos in which he demonstrated remote power lighting a globe.
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A Tesla coil makes dramatic lightning like displays of electric power such as these sparks to me in a Faraday Cage.
The “Modern Thinker” above is my interpretation of Rodin’s classic statue the “Thinker”. It conveys the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to “think”.
Believe that?. Me neither. I just like making pretty spark photos….
By the way, no photoshopping anywhere on this site. It’s all what the camera sees. Check out the Modern Thinker page for the construction of this.
Above shows “Tesladownunder car theft protection”.
Above shows a Tesla coil with rotating long breakout point looking dramatic on time exposure of 22 seconds. The “Eye of Sauron”. The two photos above have been seen by perhaps 500,000 people worldwide now since Feb 2007 and resulted in well over 100,000 hits to my site. It was featured on some big sites and hundreds of blogs and was also popular in Russia and Japan.
Above is an animated gif showing the effects of rotating the rod on top. In real time it takes 7 seconds per rotation.
Above is my recreation of Tesla and his wireless light globe compared with the original.
No photoshopping – ever.
Above, the Dalek cage. Just what you need to get up close and personal with lotsa volts. And you can even use a phone in it.
Above: How about red sparks?
Above: There are lots of other colors to see in multi-colored sparks. These are single photographic exposures through clear and colored filters in turn.
Above, swimming with 100,000 volts. Sure it’s safe. Tin hats protect you.
Above, Tesla coils with sparks from 2 inches (5cm) to 11 feet (3.3m).
Above, a briefcase Tesla coil and sparks in a light globe.
Above, Tesla coils sparks onto my tongue, driving a string of up to 30 fluoro tubes and apologies to Michelangelo’s Creation.
Above, some unusual solid state Tesla coils on the left using SIDACs instead of a spark gap, centre using a Royer circuit and on the right a vacuum tube based coil and its sparks.
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The “Modern Thinker” above is my Tesla coil sparks interpretation of Rodin’s classic statue the “Thinker”. It conveys the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to “think”.
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….
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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So spend the next 50 seconds flipping through some photos and you’re done…
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.
