Singing Tesla Coil at Duckon 2007

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Description: This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear. So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics. What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it's firing. This Tesla coil was built and is owned by Steve Ward. Steve is a EE student at U of I Urbana-Champaign. He and Jeff have been going to Teslathons, which is where they met. It's been suggested that a good name for this coil would be the "Zeusaphone". "Thoremin" has also been mentioned, though personally I think we need Theramin type inputs for that. To answer a few questions I've received, YES, someone did yell "Play Freebird!" after the first round of music. Share with friends
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mw47 ::: Favorites XD Super Mario 07-07-26 06:40:20 _____________________________________________________
Hinsi2006 ::: Favorites freakin' awesome!!! 07-07-26 12:32:14 _____________________________________________________
tehkill3r ::: Favorites ive been listening through it 10 times now, the question everyone asks: what is the first song? 07-07-26 21:09:45 _____________________________________________________
jesse121212 ::: Favorites I'm surprised this hasn't been made into a commercial endeavour. I would think this kind of equipment would be well suited to night clubs and parties etc. 07-07-27 18:05:55 _____________________________________________________
paulyhart ::: Favorites wow. break out the free energy nintendo 07-07-28 10:26:55 _____________________________________________________
heatonffs ::: Favorites The first song sounds like one of Daft punk songs. I can't really put my finger on which one though.. 07-07-28 21:22:37 _____________________________________________________
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rewolf31 ::: Favorites That is so rediculously awesome. 07-07-28 23:36:56 _____________________________________________________
Talon3000 ::: Favorites wtf? now THAT is inventive.. 07-07-29 01:57:23 _____________________________________________________
Pliskkenn ::: Favorites That was AWESOME. 07-07-29 02:21:26 _____________________________________________________
paulv1973 ::: Favorites I wonder if that can stop my tank rush. 07-07-29 15:40:20 _____________________________________________________