Solid State Musical Tesla Coil

[Nise127]

put your hand over it =D

[1BlubeTube]

Was Nicola Tesla, Russian?

[Haskis7]

@1BlubeTube He was serbian .

[JuzKillnBeatz]

Skip to 8:55 to skip all the worthless talking.

[YieSing]

@JuzKillnBeatz worthless?? what are you?

[JuzKillnBeatz]

@YieSing Sexy.

[Hicksbosone]

@JuzKillnBeatz Waaaait. My fella and me are currently building this, so it´s pretty useful to know HOW!!

[JuzKillnBeatz]

@Hicksbosone I dont care.

[Yarbski]

MULLETTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[seeyditti]

info on how to build a soild state tesla coil that can play music like yours would be great!

[JerkFaceVocals]

@Blackstarr580 ArcAttack

[rmcsherry19327]

And Dubstep was born....

[mrtangerine999]

someone's gotta make 88 of these, and set one up for each key for ultimate sound quality.

[sindresundet]

I AM A NERD! I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORDL WITH TETRIS THEME! :D

Thumbs up! :)

[Gustaaf76]

What a cool usage of the Tesla coil. A thought or question came to mind. Since this Tesla coil was rigged to play music, and the output almost seemed like lightning strikes reversed. I was wondering if the reverse was possible. Is it possible to translate the output of real lightning into music?

[rdmbox95]

@Gustaaf76 This system works by turning it on and off really fast. Lighting is an instant steady bolt, so it would simply be a very loud click. Like really loud.

[Spunkyinternall]

electric fart!

[OnnomonnomonnO]

I expected more clean sound...it's too modulated ...I've seen many SSTCs which played clearly with no modulation in there as a speaker

[datafreak667]

im making one to give to my school band :D

[LeelooDallas2]

even nerds <3 rifts

[ajsflittte]

@ThePhoenixAscendant

You mean we don't already?!

[Azarien]

Tesla guitar roxx.

[pek1029]

whats the cost of the total build?

[squall513]

@pek1029 roughly $500

[respectthegoober]

thank god for NIKOLA TESLA!!!!!!!!!

[TheRiboka]

thumbs up if u didnt understand a word they said :D

[StopMotionMind]

Did he play the party boy song at 10:04?

[wx9dx]

Where did you mic this while playing? :)

Way cool flick!

 Jimmy, WX9DX :)

[chemicallust77]

very smart using the optical connection

[wilbermusicman]

The cool thing is I understood most of what he said!

[ftge87]

Repost the tetris them Escape from newyork theme video's

[etyrnal]

i have that bass -- minus the coil - LOL

[caespitosa]

Yes, im planning on building an SSTC this year while I'm in college, and I was hoping that someone from the geek group, or some where else can give me plans for making a SSTC that can play music. Thanks.

[Channypogosticks]

someone please tell me what is the song played at 9:00 i really want it its important thanks :D

[gman4dx266]

@Channypogosticks Beverly Hills Cop theme song

[HomemadeBanjo]

Strikes me there's a fundamental problem. (Yeah. pun noted)

Although the Tesla can produce musical notes using simple Pulse Modulation, There's no way to simultaneously control amplitude. Each note is exactly as loud as the last.

Probably that's OK for pop music - it's blasted out at full volume anyway but for anything more subtle it's just going to sound... well, primitive.

[r3inhout]

@HomemadeBanjo And you're not mentioning the buzz that's mixed in your sound...

[drfiter1stcollege2nd]

I literally have very few words to say about this except I Am 18 years old and I KNOW I AM A FUTURE ELECTRICAL ENGINNER AND MECHANICAL ENGINNER..Its is such a shame that people today go home, sit on thier asses and press a button without even thinking about how this all came together!..GOD This Is Fucking SIK!

[PerfectParasite]

The bass sounded really cool

[TheWindow10]

Haha, if it's any indication of the power that thing's outputting, it messes with the camera's auto-focus something awful.

[METROIDFANTEN]

The sound that comes out almost sounds like the 8-bit sound chips from old video game systems. It would be cool to hear a band of people playing old video game music with them.

[iateyourbaby23]

@METROIDFANTEN

check out zelda dual tesla coil

[secretazn69]

so thats what music looks like...

[maxepane]

as a musician, and highschool aged male, I want one!!!!!! or plans on how to make one exactly like this one!

[SparcMan]

I can't understand why rock bands aren't using this as a guitar amp.

Great explanation of Tesla coil modulation.

[theradiationking]

i can think a lot of reasons, can't really feel the bass, and trying to playclean low notes has nasty buzzing, you can't target the direction of voice with it and traditional amps are more bang for the buck anyway

[irok30278]

Probably because it would sound like shit as an amp. It sounds like a bunch of really loud farts.

[panzarw]

so this is an alternative to a speaker...

[prankmypants]

@panzarw yep look up arc speaker

[libertypatrol]

@panzarw could be possible if we continue the research, more hertz in the tesla coil can bring clearer definition

[khbsflabhklsrblfauhk]

The implications of this are profound. Why hasn't a professional composer or band capitalized on this!?

[Battleaxegunner]

I wonder how it would sound with Hardstyle?

;)

[gurulyness]

i was just thinking that...lol

[Bloodsaberxy]

this makes me proud to be an engineer

[joeb0]

2nd clearest musical Tesla Coil I've heard yet on Youtube.

watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U

[tonychiu24362685]

that means that you can directly put the music signal to the driver to play music?

[datvra]

you guys should sell a few!

[eyetheskies]

A dangerous audio choice! :-P

[TheEmpressPalpatine]

That sounds interesting, even though I understood less than 5% of it. One thing is for sure, you have gotten wonderful music out of it. This is the beginning of bigger and better ones of Arcattack, right?

[zezimashock]

was not that hard to understand,

you just need to know where he is talking about, so your right if you don't know the stuff you won't understand.

[b1ackm3ssiah]

na, i think at 250mm wavelength and 250KV it should be a defencive mechanism using microwaves.....

[ax0lotl]

Hell yes, that instrument definitely has a place in rock.

[sciencenerd1616]

geeks rule

[Ichigofantic]

heck yes we do

[formulaformula1133]

can it plays a hip hop song?

[ModernKnight86]

It could probably do the melody to the Ruff Riders Anthem. :D

[scaryfishdude]

no, because hip hop sucks way too much to be played on an instrument as awesome as a tesla coil.

no really, hip hop is structurally and musically ridiculously primitive. no use of modes, simplistic style, clichéd lyrics....

[kerimx22]

awesome

[GRIDKEEPER]

Can I hear their voices resonting from the coil?

[ThePhoenixAscendant]

Proof! Proof that nerds will rule the world! ^_^

[paulunga]

Nah, they might be the ones inventing the cool stuff, but it's always the idiots actually using it.

[kittyburger000]

@ThePhoenixAscendant They already do...

[Kesh789]

@ThePhoenixAscendant the mythbuster and the geek group will be at the top!

[Medorcrit]

@ThePhoenixAscendant  Nerds will get the money and to modern terms knowledge= money and money = power

[ronmann606]

I thought this was lame until I heard it at the end. It would sound great with an electric guitar.

[Cysgu]

That is the most rock and roll amp EVER!!!!

[ks610]

Just your average run of the mill AWESOME!

[RockManAU]

Wicked!

Well Done

[maxman4310]

they should have mentioned that if u had a light bulb in your hand while the coil was on the light bulb would light up, its called "wireless electricity" the problem is that its not very efficient

[avialexander]

Only a florescent bulb, though.

[technoautomated]

This and elector house would kill

-show stopper, move over daft punk

[afrokidguitarist]

so im guessing you can hook a guitar to this right?

and its distorted so.....i guess you can do pinch harmonics =]

[guyra3]

Dude I was wondering exactly the same!! Haha, definitely something I wanna build, just need the material and someone that knows what goes with what or a tutorial.

[afrokidguitarist]

you could prolly find one already built on google =]

but it'll prolly cost a bit =/

[TRoss240]

pretty sure you can hook a guitar to it because they show one at the beginning of the vid.

[AylatheRaichu]

I bet you that eventually DJs all over the world are going to start using these. Great invention, I want one!

[Krtalaz91]

lol at the end. i've so wanted to build one of these! i really need to learn how soon.

[craiggybear]

In the UK when it raines it is possible to hear the transmissions from the 1mW transmitter at Droitwich. The arc discharges between the transmitter dipole (1500 meters -- 200 KHz) and the supporting masts are audible up to a mile away. Its fun!

[rottinglotus]

Need to play some thrash or black metal on there.

[TheMostSlyFox]

somebody should start a band and use this instead of speakers.

[antinegative007]

Me!

[LIELTHEBOSS]

SO COOL!!! GEEKS RULE=]

[MrfixitRick]

Thanks for the detailed info and great demo...what a delightful video.

Somewhere, the spirit of Tesla is dancing!

[Kenzofeis]

Why not run a pair of coils where one is inverted, and let the spark run at HF but AM modulate it.. should give Hi-Fi..

[Kenzofeis]

Uh, as in running the spark between them :P

[ScrewAttackChina]

possible to build one where the resonance frequency is in the micro wave band? i have an application for that... can u let me know. thx

[dieselsondemand1]

'Where are the Gate Drive Transformers'?!

Excellent work and some good insight on how it works/how one could be made.

[jimmy7lin]

Dude.. you should sell those things and make money. I bet party people and night club would like to buy those things.

You are a money maker dude.. Wow..

[MrOriginal48862]

I'm so hot for that Joe guy right now. Geekcore rules, Cx

[wdelgenio]

Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F. Theme

Ray Lynch - Celestial Soda Pop

I also know how to play those two riffs on the keyboard.

[TWISTYTWAT]

2 words very nice!

[oromisszane]

lol "average run of the mill" does not match "tesla coil"

[weylin6]

Can I join the geek group? :D

Does understanding 95% of what you said earn me acceptance? :P

was funny when you unplugged that optical cable

[crisisboy1234]

distortion much??

[therealv0x]

it sounds so terrible with bass or chords running through it I think. :( however with single notes it makes a beautiful square wave.

[AgentCROCODILE]

Bit complex there! I'm building a SSTC myself (a musical one too) and I'm not expecting it to be as complex as that (But then again, surprises turn up...)

[GeneralAntillies]

This is real nerdcore.

[mobents]

he played axel f wrong!

nice video

[Fabscher19]

lol

[jahvengeance]

less talk more rock

[kvolt44]

I still think its amazing that Tesla could build something like this in the 1890's when circuit boards didnt exist!

[AgentCROCODILE]

Tesla used a spark gap (An original Tesla coil). These guys are using semiconductors (a Solid State Tesla Coil)

[Collapshi]

he got deeply scared in the last seconds :P

[bodybager]

This is the most satanic instrument I've ever seen. ROCK ON!

[crazydisciple]

satanic? oh my fuck...you are so fucking .......theres no word to describe you........

[Kaninerness]

Thats what i call elektrone boogie xD

[tmiv]

Nice! Have you guys tried plugging a microphone into it? See what kind of vocoder sounds come out? "I am Iron Man!"

[madmark12]

thats a cool idea

[DeltaWound]

Umm, does the fact that I understood everything they said give anyone else the impression that I have too much free time?

[statisch]

nah man i understood it too

[DeltaWound]

Okay, good. I was beginning to think I had no life :D.

[DeltaWound]

"average run-of-the-mill solid state Tesla coil"

ROFLMFAO!

[tobascodagama]

Very nice explanation of how the musical Tesla coils work.

[Ostendere]

That shit.... is fucking awesome.

[booo7099]

How cool is that!!! I noticed when the camera was focusing on the sparks it seemed to go in and out of focus a bit...was the electric field affecting the ability of the camera to focus you think??? I thought it was pretty cool that those companies donated those parts too you also, impressive and a good commercial for them. Thats wonderful that they do that sorta thing. Thanks for showing us your awesome machine!!

[TheBypasser]

Lol that guy must've read my thoughts - I wanted to use the schmitt-trigger instead of interruptor to rig a guitar to my TC. However I have no guitar lol - so instead I focused on remote control and burst-mode interruptor..

As for this one - this is a really nice coil, but the spark looks too short for it's size however..

[richokorn]

Where does all of the electricity in the air go?

[BigFlipFlap]

The man who invented that "bullshit" thing was a

genius. If it wasn't for him, you wouldn't be able to go home and turn on your incandescent light (if you have those, change those to CFLs) and TV from the AC (DC cannot travel for moer than 2 miles away) energy that comes miles and miles away.

[kickymcface]

i love you... lol, realy though, this stuff is awsome.

[Andyman3k]

All true and I couldn't agree more, except I hate to tell you, there are a couple high voltage DC transmission lines. Look up Pacific DC intertie on wikipedia, or path 65. It requires a much higher voltage than normal though (500 kV)

[xan2xan3]

@BigFlipFlap the guy who invented this thing was on the base line of modern civelesation to gather with einstein, he invented a lot but there are just a few people know about him

[TheMagicalTouch]

@BigFlipFlap and thanks to that genius we can use our PC's/mac's andcomment on videos.

[brixbrix]

you know what the most geeky thing about this video is? The thumbs in the side pockets!

[tetranoob]

does it smell of ozone when you play?

[martyn357]

Only if you get TOO close!!!

[Kilohercas]

sory, it dont use IGBT, jusft mosfet, but when Fr is low, IGBTis more beter wthen mosfets,low heating :)

[Kilohercas]

it use chips PLL (CD40460 ucc 37321 Ucc 37322, IRG IGBt find in yourube 'sstc intro' that my coil ;)

[jeffsadowski]

Is it possible to get schematics with a parts list for this?

[aleks6989]

Dude, that would make for the sickest concert! can you imagine, its all dark and then lightning starts making this sick distorted electrical sound while they pull off a riff and everyones like what the shit?! it would be so badass

[whitenight639]

thats awesome these two should make a massive one for music concerts!

[L235ZW]

What he is playing in 9:40 ?

[L235ZW]

Ok I got it AC/DC TNT =)

[Xopherprvance]

ohh I'm gonna build one of these for my electric guitar. it's perfect!

[vegasheat07]

that is bad ass keep rocking the mind!!

[SoberVital]

Ничего не понял, языком не владею.

Но это классно! Электричество как источник музыки. Эх, буду поумнее - сам чёнть такое сварганю...

[Zoz3000]

Процессор вкл и выкл установку 400 раз в секунду чтобы держать уровень напряжения доступное человеческому уху (20hz-20khz)

[DanielDaniel1]

of course DUH

[emulegs5]

LOL

[TopGunMan]

Um, no it probably wouldn't stop your heart as its power is on the order of microamps and even if you had millions of volts running through you, without amps, it will not be fatal.

[RedComrade]

How do people figure this stuff out? haha

[HitokiriBob]

120.. the real matter here is current capability. tesla coils run at usually less than 100 micro-amps.. not so deadly. wall outlet? depends.. but let's say on a 20 amp breaker. 20 amps.. toast ya. i wish there was a school on this stuff.. i'd so go.. it's cooler when you hook your nes's audio output to drive your fets.. though i use a dif method of isolation.. yours is quite good.. i use laser receivers, thus no "wooops" from room lighting. lol noobies. lol

[HitokiriBob]

lighting, i'd guess florescent bulbs. and no, touching the output (lightning bolts) will NOT kill you at all. true.. there coil is running.. roughly.. based on spark length.. given the leeway with humidity.. prolly 200,000 volts. true, your wall outlet's only

[HitokiriBob]

ha, quite a good feet sirs. though taking an optics cable off obviously there's the whole.. you know, ambient light :P lol duh it's gonna fire the coil, notice the 60 hz tone? from

[vigilante397]

This demonstrates why scientists should never be musicians. I'd imagine the musical power of a tesla coil is more impressive when an actual musician plays through it.

[Activethrasher00]

wow. this is pretty cool stuff. i wish they taught classes involving things like this at my university.

[Skydancer365]

What would happen if you stuck your hand in the lightning?

[Maskedbird]

How about ouch!

[justinmcburney]

it could stop your heart or fry you pretty bad

[rudyiking]

COOL!!!

[easternmafia]

i understand what u do here, but trust me nothing u are going to get here. it is only god for your knowledge to get in to analog electronic. which i can see here. this guy in white t-short really knows what he is talking about. i am the one who is writing ''ideal voice recognition''. ps it has nothing to do with high voltage. but base is analogue electronic and the music. i have try to speak with computer geeks. but those guys are dump like chickens. I NEED electricians

[GibbonJabber]

A 440Hz note might when fed through a zero crossing detector produce a 440Hz square wave which will turn on and off the coil 440 times a second, if the note is fairly simple like a sine wave.

A note with prominent harmonics can zero cross more than twice a cycle. However the irregular square wave produced for one cycle will still be perceived as the fundamental.

[GibbonJabber]

I hope the geeks realize that Tesla coils produce hard ultraviolet radiation, and may produce X-rays, both of which cause cancer or burn out their retinas.

[Garbonzo07]

indeed

[anthwhite91]

Haha they may all die painful deaths...Isnt it funny?

[zackkline]

the're smatret than that.

[TiwazTyrsfist]

People smart enough to get a Tesla coil built are smart enough to use one safely.

People who are likely to kill themselves using a Tesla coil, tend to die during the construction phase.

Cause, you know, High voltage electical systems...

[ptiSnow]

Pretty damn good explanation. Ignore the arts students who post below..

[Kitt0000]

Good work guys

[MarkFromHawaii]

Bravo!  Intrisically safe, lol! I wonder if you could use a low power laser with a photo-transistor receiver to transmit the pulse-modulated signal. Also I wonder if there's a way to filter out some of the harmonics on the coil output to get a purer sound.

[cutterschoicenotmine]

the guy on the right, hobo geek. everything was built from the contents of a bin

[MedullaPancreas]

It's The TESLA BONG. jk. But did anybody else have the urge to smash it to pieces after that long explanation for something humanity won't benefit from? (raise your hand)

[StepFreq94]

*raises hand*

[MedullaPancreas]

How dare you invoke the name of the mighty Tesla for this glorified high school science project.

Haha Tesla is mighty, but he did invent the step up transformer (thus the coil)