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Registered Member #122
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148
Hi All!
Few months ago, i was contacted by the society who organize all courage tests for an important italian TV show: their wanted a fear test with sparks!
during a short meeting with me, they understood that it could be easily organized so, after few discarded ideas, the test was designed and scheduled!
I selected two members as helpers from ALTATENSIONE mailing list and we finally moved in Rome "Cinecittà " with our appliances for setting the test, in spite of the small duration of the test, the developement of entire set was surprisingly longer and many-many-many people was required (3 coilers plus one tailor, 5 carpenters, 6 cameramans, 2 audio technicians, 6 light technicians, 1 electrician and many others..... at least 30 people were used in 5 days of development!!!!)
It was a special opportunity to know and work for the strange world of television and, of course, a special opportunity to make known the tesla coils in Italy, the statistics have placed "Ciao Darwin" to first place in the audience with 24% share during the Tesla Coil test!
anyhow, the test was a disaster......
The first competitor was stopped in mid for a "scared problem", the second refused the test after seeing the first one so the production decided to offer only 150 points for the first team (the minimum allowable!) and no points for the second team!
The video of this courage test is available here, sorry for bad audio stream, anyway it is in Italian language.
Registered Member #180
Joined: Thu Feb 16 2006, 02:12AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 187
That was sweet haha. I don't know why they were scared, I mean everyone knows a few million volts won't hurt ya. That was a pretty crazy set up you guys built there, great job.
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445
Heh, this has been a good week for coils, my sstc was featured on the school news and a glimpse of it was shown on the local ch5 news too
In any case, I like how the host pulls some arcs to an ungrounded rod (probably more dangerous than what the victims had to do...) without even thinking about it...
Registered Member #122
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148
Hi All!
That was sweet haha. I don't know why they were scared, I mean everyone knows a few million volts won't hurt ya. That was a pretty crazy set up you guys built there, great job.
ps. is that a bird cage on her head? :P
Thank you Chris! We used a really strange (and really expensive!) copper "wool" for making the a dress and a bird cage for making the helmet.
I'm a little disappointed. My coil is scarier then that even without the theatrics.
we didn't made anything except the HV setup (plus many ground connections everywhere of course!), scenes and the tests inside were decided by the production as well as the position of coils, structures and cameras: unfortunately, the positions of the cameras wasn't so good because all cameras saw the sparks only in front or by the wrong side, in the real world, the smallest coil was delivered about 1 meter of sparks and the larger one about 1,6 meters!, there was some moments when one coil generously struck the front of the bird cage for many and many times, unfortunately, all cameras was hampered by the toroids so no images was taken!
Heh, this has been a good week for coils, my sstc was featured on the school news and a glimpse of it was shown on the local ch5 news too
Compliments for you and your coil! This isn't a simple coincidence, this is a huge coincidence because your coil was shown on channel 5, our coils on "canale 5"!!!
In any case, I like how the host pulls some arcs to an ungrounded rod (probably more dangerous than what the victims had to do...) without even thinking about it...
No problem! during the backstages, we tried many possible tests for the presenter (and of course for the attendants too!), in some of them he place his hand directly against the sparks without fear, but again, in these tests the coils seems harmless so the production didn't approved it!
Ha, the host said the fluorescent tube would explode if he held it for too long in one position and hence that was why he was waving it about....
this isn't entirely wrong.
during the backstage we killed many tubes with sparks, but always with spark gap coils and no ones exploded, we simply punctured it. he probably think that all coils are extremely dangerous for neons or simply..... this is what he had been told to say by the director, this wasn't a technical program but simply an entertaining ones!
Registered Member #122
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148
Sorry, i haven't any home videos of this setup (personal cameras aren't allowed in a TV studio!) but if you look closer on the video provided, you can occasionally see that sparks are longer than expected; of course, when the hand of the attendant was closer to the toroid, almost all sparks followed this short path to reach the ground and become shorter.
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Tesla coils on TV in Italy!
