Check out this crazy Aussie who likes to build giant Tesla coils for fun.

He mounted this one on a car:





And this is the backyard model:



Check out his website:
http://tesladownunder.com/index.html

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Wow. Awesome! Bet that would magnetize your watch pretty quickly

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If he is not careful he will blow up Tungusta, Russia again

I want to build one now!

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Holy crap that's cool. Something tells me all the neighborhood kids end up at his house. Why didn't we have neighbors like that?

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Interesting anti-theft device.

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I'm think house alarm system....

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If he mounted it on a Delorean would it go back in time?

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Monika '74 450 SL
BrownHilda '79 280SL
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'92 Subaru
'96 Impala SS
'71 Buick GS conv
'67 GTO conv
'63 Corvair conv
'57 Nomad

"A Tesla coil is device to develop very high voltages pioneered by Nicola Tesla over 100 years ago. In its simplest form it is an air cored transformer driven by discharging a high voltage capacitor through a few of the primary turns. This sets up a high frequency resonance in the secondary coil. This resonance occurs between the inductance of the tall secondary coil and the capacitance of a rounded metal object (typically a donut shaped toroid) and a very high voltage results in streamers directly into the air or sparks to nearby objects."


Got that?

That's awesome.
I always wanted to build one but I'm scared.

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Nope, probably just suck up the white lines on the road....

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are we having a quiz? Now the Faraday Cage- that's something else.

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lame.

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Big Tesla coil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

With the stucco netting, my house is like a giant Faraday cage...nothing gets in, nothing gets out.

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Interesting video about Nikola Tesla:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0

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