Musical Tesla Coil Singing Mario Under Ground and Others

This clip is from the 2007 Duckon Sci Fi convention in Naperville IL, USA. The show consisted of 2 Tesla coils making lightning for patrons to enjoy. The musical Tesla Coil turned out to be a big hit.
The coil in this clip is a solid state musical Tesla coil constructed by Steve Ward. The Tesla coil stands 7 feet tall and is capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. The sound pressure level is well over 110dB. The coil is powered by 240 volts and can draw over 40 amps. The coil resonates at a frequency in the 45 KHz range, and is modulated by a microprocessor sending out trigger pulses over a fiber optic link. The fiber optics are used to provide electrical isolation for the control electronics. The high voltage sparks are making the notes that you hear. Every note of the music is a burst of sparks at the note's frequency.
Here is a video of the coil from a different angle from a earlier run of the coil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ff_AXVlo9U
Video captured by Terry Blake edited by Jeff Larson.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Mario
• Under
• Ground
• theme
• Tetris
• musical
• tesla
• coil
• Duckon
• Scifi
• Zeusaphone

[ingmaster13]

as a n add on to jeffsadowski's comment, if it isnt turned off in 1/2 an hour what would happen?

[megavoltmeister]

Nothing would happen if we continued to run. A 1/2 hour of continuous running is a pretty long time for a coil.

[jeffsadowski]

Why does it die down like that at the end?

Does the circuitry get too hot?

How long can you play a musical tesla coil?

[megavoltmeister]

We have run the coils for close to 1/2 an hour continuously. This particular run was close to the end so the power was just turned down and turned off so perhaps some adjustments could be made.

[jindydude1]

I wanna see throught the fire and flames lol that would be mad

[trebor121290]

only if youre driving at 88 miles per hour.

[arrowghost]

Awesome, I wonder if you have consider WWE theme songs like Chris Benoit, there's quite some electric guitar elements in there.

[usmcmajormichael]

can you try metal gear 

[mathis0620]

I would really love to know the name of the first song (the one before mario) i have seen this video a ton of times and everyone keeps asking for that song. Would you happen to know the name of the song, or how to find out what it is called?

[deesies]

what a dull crowd :|

[ADFX01FALKEN]

Wow Psy Trance >_>!!!!!

[ADFX01FALKEN]

WOW PsyTrance on this xD!!!

[darkyoda]

Somewhere, Tesla is looking down at this with a huge grin on his face!

[hyperbob101]

awesome

[hotelmario510]

Truly a great man.

[Tier100]

and he wanted that we use current for free