House of The Rising Sun - Musical Tesla Coils

House of The Rising Sun played on Steve Caton's and Eric Goodchild's (me) 7 foot tall Musical Tesla Coils.

This was the first time the coils have ever been run together. It was a marvelous first test.

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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[Lá Breithiúnas]

House of the Rising Sun? House of the Rising Electric Bill... Lol great job!

[Martin Kincl]

True electro

[jim bo]

I think what he means is that tesla coils can "harness" electrical potentials in the air. Kind of like a lightning rod, or a probe on an electrostatic generator. The toroids on top of the coils are coupled to the secondary, and then to ground. The fluctuations in voltage in the secondary will in turn induce a voltage in the primary, which can be used to charge capacitors and run a voltage regulator.

[Ignacio Taglialegne]

DJ NIKOLA TESLA

[DackIsBack]

"This was the first time the coils have ever been run together."

*wipes tear from eye*

[Carlitos Padilla]

No way this will fit in my keyboard rig

[Jennifer Sloan]

The dude at the end said it all... "That was awesome!"

[ChrisMP1]

No, they don't gather energy. That thing's drawing power like a motherfucker, I promise you. The resonant circuit does increase the voltage, but voltage isn't energy. It's more like pumping your legs on a swing at the right frequency to go higher than just one push.

[Kevin Wallker]

this is very fun.... Great Job!

[Iggypunktreak]

this really makes me ride the lightning

[Sollux Captor]

Yeah, as I said I'm not entirely sure on the sciences of it, but you are right there, that does play a fair bit in the generation of electricity.

[KIWIKREW Facepalm]

Huh. I can remember seeing a documentary about them and i remember that it said that the air already has a lot of energy in it from the sun (heat energy=kinetic energy) and that the small amount of electricity attracts that energy and those are the sparks, then it turns that energy into electricity. I pretty sure that then CAN gather electricity :3