"Dr. Zeus" and Dueling Musical Tesla Coils

Captured at the 2007 Cheesehead Teslathon, sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) on September 8, 2007 in Baraboo, WI. Shows some Chicago-area Tesla coilers at play! Dr. Zeus (Terry Blake) dressed in a specially constructed personal Faraday Cage takes high voltage "hits" from two identical high power solid state coils. The coils, constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson, are driven from a single Laptop PC by two MIDI outputs. You can see sparks jumping from Dr. Zeus's feet when he's standing on a sheet of 1/4" polyethylene. The current from Steve Ward's coil easily lights a string of 120 volt incandescent light bulbs. Sometimes the high frequency current takes a short cut, jumping between filament supports rather than flowing through the filaments. Something you don't see every day... :^)

See more of Dr. Zeus's exploits at his new site:
http://www.dr-zeus.com/

Captured by Bert Hickman, Stoneridge Engineering, http://www.teslamania.com

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[leonmurraybarton]

PLEASE program them to play Dueling Banjos

[TyrantWave]

PLEASE program them to play Dueling Banjos

YES! We need that!

[Schmeeky455]

@PhantomDark21 It's a Faraday Cage, and it conducts the electricity to the ground rather than it going through the guy! 

[denelson83]

This is Music C from Tetris on the NES.

[PhantomDark21]

lol he must be in some kind resistence electrial suits. to be able to do all that.

[xtremepow3r]

like i said, i used 5kV and that was more than 2-3cm long. 20kV is more than 5cm...

[lo9765]

20kv makes 2-3 cm sparks , not 3 feet, these tesla coils generate about 1-2 milions of volts.

The purpose of the glass plate is to allow him making sparks between coils without discharging to ground, he 's already protected by faraday suit otherwise.

[xtremepow3r]

BTW, unless you have a tesla coil winder or have like £100 to buy a secondary coil, your gunna be there for ages winding a coil that big, mine needed a 0.12mm gap between each wind on the coil, and 950-1000(cant remember) turns! Also, the best wire to use is 24 gauge, dont ask why i talked to a specalist when i built mine

[xtremepow3r]

OMG, you idiots dont understand electronics, thats why you are all stupid, hes stood on that metal plate on the groud so he is SURE hes grounded or that electricity would fucking fry him, i made a tesla coil in college and it was about 1 meter in heighht and that was 20,000 volts! (20kV) and 30mA. And that porduces sparks at about 3 feet long, thats making them at like 2 meters long, about 6 feet. That will be a hell of a voltage and if it hits him he will die lol thats why hes grounded on metal

[tedmerr]

He's wearing a Faraday cage too.