Gemini Demo Video - Large Bipolar Tesla Coil

[teddybear114]

These coils would perform much better with twice as big as a toroid.

[thewii552]

see, that old setup looked big, but now that I see the distance and power levels of Gemeni in your current lab, it looks small.

[Drbarrelroll369]

nerd!

[hwwhitesock17]

this is physics right?

[ThePaalanBoy]

what happens if i put 220v in it?

[thevectorfilms]

the coil on the right is out of tune.

[Videoman2550]

That was THE best explanation of a building a TC I've seen to date (especially on You Tube). Well done! If possible, could you somehow e-mail me some detailed plans. My uncle and I are building a table-top scaled Tesla coil. These detailed plans along with this video would greatly help. Thank you very much, and God bless you.

[12swordmaster]

Why can't I just take a wire and attach it to the primary coil?

[kartkid100]

close, but not quite, The primary and tank capacitor form an oscilating circuit which operates at frequencies mutch higher than the break rate of the rotary spark gap. the primary acts as an antenna, and the secondary (which is a resonant circuit, as the wound coil is the inductor, and the topload is the capacitor) is (hopefully) tuned to the same frequency.

[gilligan80]

i love how the hertz problem still exists today... it proves pretty much every single person building tesla coils has absolutely no idea how far "resonance" actually goes.... just because the line voltage is at 60 hz and the power supplies run at 60 hz... the system is still dissonant with the "atmosphere"... the atmosphere is NOT resonant with 60 hz... you can tell if someone has a "resonant" coil when the discharge is closer to violet...not blue...sound,colors,light etc.. all have "octaves"

[Anothercoilgun]

Super explanation video.

[RubiconPolitics2]

Interesting work you guys are doing with this venture, but I have to ask, is the speaker here wearing a piece during your educational video?

[RubiconPolitics2]

Ahh..n/m just saw another vid where you explain it's a palm pilot. I understand the high school security issue.

[Physicsduck]

That's ok, and yes, it's an E-Holster. No, in that video I wasn't carrying. However, I do have a CPL and I usually do carry (even when we're shooting videos, etc). I don't carry when we go do in-school demos (you can't carry in a public school in Michigan, which is dumb because it doesn't stop the kids from doing it). But if you pay close attention to my videos you'll note that I usually have a Glock-26 IWB at 5oC.

[gilligan80]

which is retarded because if you were actually doing what tesla actually was doing the high frequencies "ala wardenclyffe" would have cooked off every single round from the high frequency discharges... obviously this coil is no comparison to the "ulivi" ray or wardenclyffe....but could you imagine every single round going off simultaneously... THAT would be cool...

[GameAGogo]

pretty blue box

[zecamel1]

Man that tie is sooooooOOOO long, or is Mr. Geek just really short? Great job on the clear understanding of the coil operations. Have you done a Roger's resonant coil yet? Thank you for posting.

[jovicakluk]

the entire rest of the syste lol

[heintzenberg]

awesome presentation!

5/5

[toomyg155]

cool video, makes the TC easy to understand.

[acedegamer1]

*wipes drool up and scratches head* yea...simple...right....

[bstyle82]

longest tie ever! :)

[Brentaubrey]

Perfect presentation.

[supertact1]

Why does it randomly shoot everywhere.. the bolt I mean?

[RockinRickChicago]

Oversimplified...electricity is lazy. It follows the path of least resistance. Because air is not still, has varying humidity, varying gases, that path changes with time. The arc itself ionizes the air which changes the path as well. If the room here was a vacuum it probably wouldn't arc.

[Wyrehedd242]

so incredibly awesome.... love it.

[frankvsmaximvs]

I am in absolute AWE of that MMC array!!! Design is a stroke of genius!!!

[proelton]

thank you!

[naguma]

One of the most lucid and direct explanations of a bipolar Tesla Coil that I have been privileged to watch. Go GeekS!

[krhall78]

Hmm... link is dead, it only takes you to a blank page.

[saitanus]

i wanna know what power company they got that xformer from

[peterm3964]

yes you truely are a geek

[ct92404]

...I have a small Tesla Coil, but nothing like THIS!  Mine generates about 100kv. Some of my videos show up in the sidebar.

[GigaBoost]

Coolio, could you use them to fry a person like in Red Alert? I mean, is it plausible to control the discharge so that it would strike a human, possibly moving?

[Daman3456]

Amps are what kills you. Amps != Volts

[GigaBoost]

Answer my question ;)

[ct92404]

Yeah, well Daman3456, I would say that 10 KVA (that's roughly 10,000 Watts) is plenty of power. The transformer by itself would definitely do the job, but a Tesla Coil that big supplies plenty of voltage AND current. The only reason a Tesla Coil doesn't kill you is because it's high frequency.

[ct92404]

hehehe...well, GigaBoost, if you could insulate something for a couple of million volts so you could "aim" the discharge, maybe.

[GigaBoost]

Woho so it's possible.

Sci-fi is now reality =).

Thanks for the answer

[superboerNWL]

hooray red alert!

[Shintsu2]

I've been thinking the same thing! I need one of these to use on my neighbors!

[edydiedie]

wouldve been cooler without directional thing

[electronicevilgenius]

Nice, I built a 500VA Tesla Coil myself using a big 300 lbs pole distribution transformer. I'm trying to sell the transformer now; I'm over it.

[MetrakitProRaceII]

i think that Teslacoil is a nice piece of Work!

[seoulpatch]

Dear Chris and Geek Group,

Super work and great video! As somewhat of a neophyte, I've a question for you about the tuning of the coil. Please tell me more about the jumper wire that's used as "tuning" point for the primary coil. What's its shape and relationship to the larger primary coil? Do you have a schematic you could mail me? Any info on the other tuning points would also be really appreciated. Thanks for your hard work and knowledge!!!

Jason

jasonsostaric at hotmail

[thegeekgroup]

Ask that in the Group's forums and you'll get an answer ;) Go to the website, membership is free.

[RotogenRay]

Nice, very respectable.

Geek Group is doing some great things. I can't imagine the trouble winding the secondaries would have been.

Great explanation, great job.

[RotogenRay]

let.s see...

ac power, oil insulation, vacuum tubes (better than solid state) the AC induction motor, shall I go on???

[RotogenRay]

This is science

look, electricity can only do so much for nature, but our understanding of physics, etc, using tesla coil for particle accelerators will really be doing something good.

Right now, antimatter is the most expensive stuff on earth. Now, you only need to accelerate an electron to1 or 2MeV or so to get positrons and antimatter, which is the most efficient way to store energy, you see?

[gordongate]

yes i agree but two major american research institutes in conjunction with a russian nuclear research agency have found slow decay chains which point back to a source element of atomic number 115, if a stable isotope can be isolated (which they think exists) introduction of i high energy proton releases more antimatter per energy unit input.... wow!

[djd829]

Excellent explanation of the Tesla coil!

[25cent88888]

pretty blue box....

[jflomann]

what are you talking about..forgotten? they teach this in high school

[OrganicDrew]

comparatively with Edison Tesla is not a household name, not everybody knows him .. maybe in your high school but not in mine.. I had to fight to give him historical justice and pressidence in my school!

[intersliced]

what the sprite thingy that moves directly upward from the point the sparks meet?

[thegeekgroup]

It's just an artifact from the camera itself, it's not actually there.

[zigire]

That's a very long tie! Nice video.

[krisantuzzi]

there is a BIG ass jacobs ladder in the background

[tarhun]

took you long enough to get to the good bit... ;)

[shank232]

Tesla would be proud to know he was not completely forgotten!