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Pictures from the 9th Uk Teslathon, Cambridge.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:36 pm
by MaxuS the 2nd
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:59 pm
by jrrdw
Going to make some lighting are you Max? If some one wants to impress me with one of these, I want the arc to be 2 inchs in diameter and 100 yards long! Controled that is.......
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:03 am
by mark.f
The guy with the piece of pipe and the wool cloth looks so out of place...
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:05 pm
by starman
Very cool Max!! I've contemplated building one of these for literally dozens of years....good on ya!!
Looks like you're well on your way there. Keep us posted on your progress.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:22 pm
by jrrdw
What is it going to cost you to completed project?
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:24 pm
by MaxuS the 2nd
It shoild cost a further £150 ($300) or so to finish..Most expensive components are the capacitors. Ridiculously expensive, even by eBay standards.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:50 pm
by littlebro05
Seeing, that makes me want to put that up a spudgun's back hole and turning it on for the explosion... If you touch do you like get injured?
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:58 pm
by Hotwired
markfh11q wrote:The guy with the piece of pipe and the wool cloth looks so out of place...
Looks like he's just polishing his rod to stick into that high voltage generator beside him.
Where was this anyways? I'm in Cambridge myself.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:40 pm
by MaxuS the 2nd
It was right next to the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
http://www.cam.net.uk/home/steam/
That's a Wimshurst Generator, it creates an electrostatic charge by rubbing two Acrylic discs against eachother.
He's attempting to introduce electrons onto the two discs by creating a negative charge on the pole, just like how you rub a balloon on your jumper.
One guy, Nick..His Solid State Tesla Coil went a bit hay-wire and a streamer hit his hand. Burnt a hole right from one side of his palm to the other.
They're called High Frequency Burns. I'm not sure what would happen on a Spark Gap Tesla Coil, probably the same thing I imagine..
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:39 pm
by mark.f
I'm a little too familiar with high-frequency burns. I still couldn't imagine getting one all the way through my hand, though.
EDIT - and maxus, I know what he was doing. I'm just saying it looks a little out of place/funny in the middle of all the other experiments.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:24 pm
by Hotwired
MaxuS the 2nd wrote:Burnt a hole right from one side of his palm to the other.
WTF
An actual hole? Jeez, bet that stung a bit.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:52 pm
by jonnyboy
I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:57 pm
by MaxuS the 2nd
jonnyboy wrote:I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
On the contrary..
A very small hole from side to the other. Only through a small amount of skin, but a hole none-the-less.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:00 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Hotwired wrote:Looks like he's just polishing his rod
Describing it that way makes it sound even more dodgy
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:08 pm
by jonnyboy
MaxuS the 2nd wrote:jonnyboy wrote:I think he means two burns from one zap. Not a real hole.
On the contrary..
A very small hole from side to the other. Only through a small amount of skin, but a hole none-the-less.
OUCH
I thought it just burned both sides.
