Dr Zeus w LightSabers vs Twin Musical Tesla Coils

Dr Zeus battles Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils with LightSabers at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI.

Dr Zeus is Terry Blake inside his custom made high voltage suit. The suit is made of various flexible metal parts including chainmail and several types of screen. The suit directs the electrical energy around Terry, allowing him to safely interact with electrical arcs that span over 12 feet. The LightSabers are actually standard fluorescent lights, which can be fully illuminated by the energy from the Tesla Coils, without wires.

Dr Zeus is standing on an insulating plastic sheet, which forces the energy to emerge as sparks from his feet to get to earth ground.

The music that you hear is coming from the sparks generated by the Tesla coils, not speakers. The Tesla coils are 7 feet tall, 18 feet apart, and can put out over 12 foot sparks. A laptop computer sends midi commands to the coils via fiber optic link. These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson.

http://www.Dr-Zeus.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Musical
• Tesla
• Coils
• High
• Voltage
• Lightning
• Sparks
• Arcs

[TheDSil]

Homeboy needs to do Final Countdown while wearing medieval armor and holding swords. Then we'd have a true metalocalypse.

[Gdunn585]

some people also forget the fact that this is absoutly fucking awesome no matter if he is wearing a fara suit or a fuckin darth vadar mask... Its awesome..

[kingjacob300]

looks like a man holding two glowing tooth picks lol

[Harakudoshi904]

If only he was in a chicken suit. Would've been perfect.

[Loscar1472]

Iceland defeat zeus and all titans...

[masterhaywardian]

@TheRyanmoff I believe it's a song from Tetris

[Kajowwojak]

@Gdunn585 yes.

[TheRyanmoff]

whats the name of the song?

[JC21824]

Fluorescent lamps

Right?

[Skepdisc]

I mistakenly read that as Dr. Zaius and was expecting to see an orangutang playing with Tesla coils.

This is almost as good though!

[ryoske07]

Tetris C FTW