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Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 05:35AM
Location: Woodridge, Illinois, USA
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Hi All,
The 2007 Cheesehead Teslathon (9/8/07 in Baraboo Wisconsin) was a blast. The highlight of the evening had to be Steve Ward's and Jeff Larson's twin DRSSTC's and the debut of "Tman" (local coiler Terry Blake) in his self-designed personal Faraday Cage. The coils are being modulated by two MIDI ports off a laptop PC. Steve can provide additional details. The following is a short clip showing Tman getting zapped from both coils, lighting a string of 120 volt light bulbs, and shooting sparks from his feet. The coils (and Terry) performed flawlessly! This is REALLY something you don't see every day...
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Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
Location: Austin Tx
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Cool video Bert. Notice how far Jeff's coil arcs to connect with Terry's head at the start of the clip! I wonder if Terry shorting out my coil was causing it to shunt a little more energy into Jeff's coil... i dunno but thats one heck of a long spark (must be 12 feet at least given the coils are at least ~18 feet apart).
Jeff's "clone" seemed to be outperforming its original. Im not sure but i think part of it has to do with the fact that the current limit was kicking in on my coil, but not on Jeffs (since i apparently didnt set it right with my first wild guess). In any case, it was a fantastic show, even if i wasn't making the biggest sparks
Now i must get the phase control implemented into my controller so that we can hopefully get connecting sparks spanning 18'+. Go solid state!
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Tman and dueling musical Tesla Coils
