Musical Tesla Coils at Penguicon 2008 (2)

[Zimbarbarian]

There was a charge in the air that night.

[Zeldon567]

Beatbox this, Hikakin.

[xheralt]

This vid is almost as breathtaking as actually being there and seeing it live -- which I was!

[Elfenastics]

cool video!

whats the song called at 1:50?

[bloggingchick]

That one is from the movie Beetlejuice.

[dieselscience]

I think Bach would laugh with delight!

[mger33]

BTW: the first song is from JS Bach, not froma computer game!

[kinkoblast]

If by "JS Bach" you mean "Koji Kondo" and "not froma computer game!" you mean "in Mario Bros!". Just the first thirty seconds or so, that is definitely the Mario underground theme. The second part sounds like Bach's work, but I could be mistaken easily.

[salemcripple]

Such an epic ending! lol

[Ergzay]

Anyone know where the capacitor bank is for those? I don't see any and because of the size of the tesla coil they must be decently large banks. Doesn't appear to be much of anything underneath them direclty.

[heinz1357]

They are located a bit offside, follow the cables.

At other videos you can see them ;).

[Ergzay]

Isn't that like rather bad? You are running many foot long cables to and from a capacitor bank that is running super high current. These things peak at 1000 Amps. Wouldn't it be better to place them underneath with the rest of the electronics and the spark gap?

[pumpkinheadedsob]

not a problem with the right cables, I work at a place that rents large generators and all our cables are rated for direct heavy foot traffic and we have generators up to 1.5 MW

[PunisherPayne]

Fucking beetle juice!

[salemcripple]

lol, i was just going to say that.

[hal970fx]

SCIENCE!

[Gamemodder420]

How the heck do you tune those things!!! Amazing , Simply amazing!

[OnlineReject]

I'm not expert, but I think that since electricity or energy in general works in frequencies, it's a simple matter of figuring which notes are what frequencies and playing the songs on the computer with the speakers being.... those two Tesla coils (some experts re-wiring required, lol)

[tommybshr]

These coils operate around 40 thousand hertz. Wall plug ac line in the us is 55-65 hertz. these are transformers that resonate like blowing air into a bottle. the sound you hear from a bottle, though, is about 400 hertz. the transformers are switched on and off at audio frequency. Tuning, i think depends on the temperature and humidity.

[NuBoko]

yeah... and this is so Bad Ass

[punkerdave01]

is that the theme from beverly hills cop

[Steve98052]

Very cool!