Great picture.

amazing, nice work

Sometimes you just see a picture and cant think anything other than "that cant be safe". Be great to set one of those up at work we had some health and safety peon telling us some cardboard boxes stacked neatly against a wall were a H&S risk, I think they would have a heart attack if they saw that :mrgreen:

Imagine how many kids you could interested in physics in one hit if you could fire one of those up on the school field during double physics...

Makes the old van-de-graaff tricks look a bit crappy!

Quote from: BigSoyImagine how many kids you could interested in physics in one hit if you could fire one of those up on the school field during double physics...

Makes the old van-de-graaff tricks look a bit crappy!

Wouldnt look as impressive and its a long exposure photo (22 seconds).

http://tesladownunder.com

Lets be clear for a minute though, if that thing flashes on 10 feet from your nose, whether its for a second or a minute, youre going to be impressed.

ive linked that up on my forum, that rocks a big fat one!

Quote from: Clockd 0Ne... Ever considered working in S/FX?

I have a day job which takes all of my week and most of weekends so dont get much time to play.
Most of my projects have to be short and sharp, shoot and publish to the web.
Probably 4-5 hours total for this one.

Quote from: Seriousthat is nice, but you wouldnt want to stand too close to it.

At this power and with tuning being off and lots of streamer losses, longest spark will be about 3 feet.  
Standing 6 feet away is safe. closer and it might bite you.  The earthed controller is closer.

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Quote from: Binary Shadowwhys it pink tho?

Its lilac!  /slap

This is the girls one. Didnt think you pussies were ready for the real thing.

Quote from: ThrawnSometimes you just see a picture and cant think anything other than "that cant be safe". Be great to set one of those up at work we had some health and safety peon telling us some cardboard boxes stacked neatly against a wall were a H&S risk, I think they would have a heart attack if they saw that :mrgreen:

In fact this was "passed" by our local Dept of Energy Safety. Turns out that once you drop
things down to 50 V then it is not really under their jurisdiction.  So I used an arc welder to drop 240V mains to 50VAC.  
I then used another welder in reverse to take 50VAC and take it back up to 240VAC and run my coil.
The inspector who was actually quite reasonable, seemed happy with that provided I wasnt doing public displays.
Of course, no different to plugging directly into the mains.

Quote from: Serious...Wouldnt look as impressive and its a long exposure photo (22 seconds).

Tesla coils are impressive not only for the sparks that rend the air but they are also very loud.  
If you are not impressed, move closer. Of course I have built two bigger coils as well.

Here is a ground level shot.

Awesome!

You made it to the front page of digg too:
http://digg.com/hardware/The_Eye_Of_Sauron_made_out_of_a_Tesla_Coil_PICTURE

I want to lick it....

and now ..

"The Aura of Sauron"

Not photoshopped!
Details of how it was done here.
A lot harder to construct.
I wanted an effect like a World of Warcraft mage casting a spell perhaps.

TDU

Wow that is really impressive... also alot of the stuff on the website is REALLY good aswell!

hobby, random, uni, college?

I used to have a gallery of pics on my gallery from a teslathon a couple of years back, these things are LOUD :mrgreen:

Just a hobby when I get the time.  No formal qualification in this stuff.

TDU

Brings back wonderful memories of zapping thing in C&C red Alert.