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Registered Member #1756
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Hello, i bought the BTC40 tesla coil from info unlimited as my first ever tesla coil kit. When i bought it i had hoped to hook it up to a keyboard (piano type) to play music. Not until after i bought it did i learn that this model, due to the spark gap, was unable to do so. I was wondering what i would have to do in order to be able to hook it up to a keyboard. New spark gap? or is it even possible?
Registered Member #1628
Joined: Wed Aug 06 2008, 08:48PM
Location: Huntsville, AL USA
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With the coil you have to my knowledge it is not possible to hook to a keyboard. Somebody else can correct me if I'm wrong. This is a question that you might should have asked before forking over that kind of money. Sorry.
Registered Member #1745
Joined: Wed Oct 08 2008, 12:29AM
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Im pretty sure that the only kind of coils that have music interface (keyboard etc) are solid state tesla coils and their like, not spark gap tesla coils
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Ummmm, you should read up for a long time before you try anything. I am not being mean, but if you read up you will learn that you could not make a tesla coil like that sing, and you will also know that a solid state tesla coil does not use any high voltage transformers or capacitors (at least not a capacitor quite like that). You would have to learn ALOT before you can even attempt a solid state tesla coil.
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If you still want to go and buy a tesla coil that can play music from a keyboard etc. i suggest you buying a miniBrute drsstc kit from and then a XenoSonic audio modulator interface. Of corse there are many other ways thay one can build a musical drsstc but you will need a good amount of electronics experience before you can attempt to build something like that from scratch.
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lbenson wrote ...
I was wondering what i would have to do in order to be able to hook it up to a keyboard. New spark gap? or is it even possible?
1) Plug coil into Clapper(tm) 2) Duct-tape headphones to Clapper(tm) 3) Plug headphones into keyboard 4) Set keyboard to percussion 5) Crank up volume on keyboard 6) Go to town
Of course, the coil output will be all syncopated and weird, but it wouldn't be cool if it sounded like everybody else's
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What would you recommend i read. I'm in this for the learning, but ive been having trouble finding good info. The best thing ive had so far was the plans that came with the BTC40.
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Somebody else can correct me if I'm wrong. This is a question that you might should have asked before forking over that kind of money. Sorry.
