Firestarting with a Tesla Coil

Dr. Zeus (Terry Blake in a conductive metal suit) draws sparks down a piece of wood, using the plasma to heat the wood and set it ablaze.

The tesla coils are Steve Ward's Giant Singing Tesla Coils, taking a break from their music to play some steady tones for starting fires.

Filmed at Penguicon 6.0, at the Troy Hilton, Troy, Michigan.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• tesla
• coil
• high
• voltage
• arc
• spark
• singing
• musical
• penguicon
• lightning
• fire

[ecopowerfuture]

Tesla would be proud!

[thedontg]

and mankind finally invented fire!

[AndrewJBright]

lol wats gunna happen to his phone....

[crazy4sian]

He's a Tesla Trooper!

[Jxedwardo]

0:28 GUITARRA ELECTRICA!

[nerocon]

Read the section called "The 'skin effect' and high frequency electrical safety" on the wiki page of skin effect to clear up the deadly misconception. DO NOT allow yourself to be hit by an arc of a high voltage tesla coil.

[nerocon]

Not sure what you are implying about skin effect, but if your saying he would not be electrocuted if he were to remove the suit and walk into range of the arc you are dead wrong. The problem there is not "skin effect" but the nature of our nerve cells themselves, with such high freq discharges our nerve cells do not pick up the shock as "bad" so they do not rely a warning to the brain. A novice would then think they were not being electrocuted when in fact they were.

[nerocon]

skin effect is immaterial here.. I was responding to Perrickan who asked if his suit was some kind of Faraday type and that answer is no. Then I elaborated about why he is not being electrocuted and that reason is the suit providing a lesser resistance path to ground. Nothing to do with skin effect.

[noneofyourbusiness06]

The suit works on tesla coils because of the ultra high frequency (20,00Hz+) of the electricity.

Look up "skin effect". Only works on metals, not human flesh.

[risecolt]

rrrrrrrrrrr ao.... lol