"Nyan Cat Theme" - Played on Musical Tesla Coils

These are two gigantic solid state musical Tesla Coils. A Tesla Coil is a special type of transformer invented by Nikola Tesla that is able to generating extremely large voltages using a phenomenon known as electrical resonance. Each coil in this video is capable of generating a 13 foot spark. This equates to about 500,000 volts of electricity.


The primary drive system for the coils consists of high power semiconductors arranged into an H-Bridge switching configuration. During a spark event, the coil is pulsed on for a few hundred millionths of a second. During this short time, thousands of amps circulate within the primary tank circuit and the energy is coupled into the secondary resonator through magnetism.


So what appears to be a continuous burst of sparks is actually a specific number of sparks generated per second. By modulating the number of sparks that emit from the coil each second, different tones can be produced by the coils.


These coils were constructed by Eric Goodchild and Steven Caton.


Eric Goodchild is currently an EE student at ASU Polytechnic.


His personal website is: http://www.goodchildengineering.net/


Steven Caton is currently an EE student at UCLA


His personal website is: http://stevencaton.com/

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[Michael Faraday]

You blokes forget to appreciate my contributions to electromagnetism.

[Ethan Navarro]

Once a revolutionary machine forwarding science, now used to play Nyan Cat...

[amandamp101]

I've found myself in the nerd part of youtube... it is beautiful. I have found my people.

[Ricky Harvey]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Thor did this in The Avengers

[iOn Brian Chua]

now put a cat on the center...

[TheSwanies]

Too bad he has his own personal security system, i bet his neighbours would be shocked^^

[SunshinePork]

They are probably storming his house with pitchforks.

[DarkThunderism]

They think: They will both drown in pussy if they show this to girls.

[trollmylove]

Tesla coils actually don't use up all that much electricity

[Bernhard Elvikowski]

If you pay the fucking bill.

[LemonShardStudios]

Oh my God