This ladder WILL KILL you if you touch it!

[sharkeeper]

Jacob's Ladder pulling ~15,000 Watts.

Cheers!

 

[AlmostFunny]

what the hell was that?

 

[Spoooon]

Imagine having something like that sitting in the corner of your living room.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
Imagine having something like that sitting in the corner of your living room.

muhahahaha!

 

[Renob]

Sweet, were can I order one.

 

[sharkeeper]

Imagine having something like that sitting in the corner of your living room.

It would be fine to store it there...

The initial CRACK when the arc fires off at the bottom is about 140 dBA and the buzzing is a nice 110 dBA or so. (measured at a safe five meters away) There is incredible amount of heat as well, about as much as running three electric driers unvented in the living space. At the national average electric rate, it would cost about $900 per month to run continuously! There are many other hazards as well (0zone) and an extreme electric shock hazard. If the family dog or cat engaged with the energised bars, it would be similar to a moth getting stuck in the grid of a backyard bug whacker! :Q

Cheers!

 

[Blackroot]

wouldn't want to have your computer near that thing.

 

[Soybomb]

Actually it would be good for the living room. Hook it up to the security system, put it on each side of the door. Better be sure the system is disarmed before going in

 

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

Imagine having something like that sitting in the corner of your living room.

It would be fine to store it there...

The initial CRACK when the arc fires off at the bottom is about 140 dBA and the buzzing is a nice 110 dBA or so. (measured at a safe five meters away) There is incredible amount of heat as well, about as much as running three electric driers unvented in the living space. At the national average electric rate, it would cost about $900 per month to run continuously! There are many other hazards as well (0zone) and an extreme electric shock hazard. If the family dog or cat engaged with the energised bars, it would be similar to a moth getting stuck in the grid of a backyard bug whacker! :Q

Cheers!

mmmmmm, hot dogs.... mmmmm

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

holy....

 

[dighn]

tesla coils are cooler

 

[Krakerjak]

*soils self*

That's some cool stuff

 

[sharkeeper]

tesla coils are cooler

They are, more efficient, and considerably dangerous some distance away!

Consider at the same power level. We were limited to 20 kVA (MAX) at the residential setting. Any more would trip the main breaker. Didn't have the balls to bug off the wires at the peckerhead (this is highly illegal anyways since all the power used does NOT go through the meter!)

Simple Coil running 15+ kVA

Twin Sisters

People that are brave enough to watch cannot have any metal objects on their person whatsoever, or they can catch on fire!

Cheers!

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

tesla coils are cooler

They are, more efficient, and considerably dangerous some distance away!

Consider at the same power level. We were limited to 20 kVA (MAX) at the residential setting. Any more would trip the main breaker. Didn't have the balls to bug off the wires at the peckerhead (this is highly illegal anyways since all the power used does NOT go through the meter!)

Simple Coil running 15+ kVA

Twin Sisters

People that are brave enough to watch cannot have any metal objects on their person whatsoever, or they can catch on fire!

Cheers!

WOW SUCH A PRETTY SIGHT :Q

what was this for?

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

tesla coils are cooler

They are, more efficient, and considerably dangerous some distance away!

Consider at the same power level. We were limited to 20 kVA (MAX) at the residential setting. Any more would trip the main breaker. Didn't have the balls to bug off the wires at the peckerhead (this is highly illegal anyways since all the power used does NOT go through the meter!)

Simple Coil running 15+ kVA

Twin Sisters

People that are brave enough to watch cannot have any metal objects on their person whatsoever, or they can catch on fire!

Cheers!

Sweetness! Got any videos?

 

[Eli]

High voltage rules!!

I was majorly into it few years ago.. built my own mini tesla coil. I got it to work reasonably well, it was very finicky.

It's packed away somewhere now.. I should dig it out and scare my girlfriend.

 

[sharkeeper]

WOW SUCH A PRETTY SIGHT

what was this for?

General R & D. (It was a lot of fun too!)

Sweetness! Got any videos?

I don't have any indoor videos unfortunately. Back in the day (obviously before CCD cameras!) vidicon tubes were EXPENSIVE and people in the biz informed me that the EMR fields would destroy them instantly. I did make some shoots with a real movie camera using 8mm film. No sound though. I'll have to attempt to cap them to something more portable like DIVX...

Using any kind of instrument up close was really scary indoors. Many times you could draw sparks off anything that resembled metal held in your hands even a few meters away. We did perform outdoor experiments and 40W fluorescent tubes hung from the fence over 30 meters from the magnifier would glow at full power. :Q

Cheers!

 

[LordMorpheus]

the purpose of a tesla coil is wireless power transmission. This insane dude named Tesla (of course) invented them some years ago, and is the subject of many urban legends (the death ray, his coil drawing so much power that the local powerplant lit on fire, etc. etc.).

The amazing arc lighting you see is kind of a side effect, and probably the reason it never took off. If you build a coil, you can hold a flourescent buld (not sure about normal incandescent) nearby and it will light up. If you have the coil set right (as in not suber powerful) there will be NO arc lighting going on, but the bulb will 'magically' light up. It is really an awesome sight, some buddies of mine built on recently and I saw it in action . . . turn the lights out, turn the coil on . . You can wave the tube around like a lightsaber and it will be the ONLY source of light in the room . . . except for the flourexcent bulbs in the ceilling that were glowing dimly . . . hahaha.

But, the idea never took off because of what you see in those picture. Imagine having one of those attached to ever powerline pole . . . . . .

 

[socom2]

This ladder will not kill you but leave you with broken bones for sure
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[datalink7]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

tesla coils are cooler

They are, more efficient, and considerably dangerous some distance away!

Consider at the same power level. We were limited to 20 kVA (MAX) at the residential setting. Any more would trip the main breaker. Didn't have the balls to bug off the wires at the peckerhead (this is highly illegal anyways since all the power used does NOT go through the meter!)

Simple Coil running 15+ kVA

Twin Sisters

People that are brave enough to watch cannot have any metal objects on their person whatsoever, or they can catch on fire!

Cheers!

:Q:Q:Q

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
If the family dog or cat engaged with the energised bars, it would be similar to a moth getting stuck in the grid of a backyard bug whacker!

pics?

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

Simple Coil running 15+ kVA

Twin Sisters

That looks like the beginning of Half Life!!

 

[sharkeeper]

This ladder will not kill you but leave you with broken bones for sure http://members.shaw.ca/fivelitermustang/video.asx[/Q

LOL, yeah I bet a lot of people were thinking this was yet another repost...

I find it strange that the guy's name who fell off the ladder is both Chris and Kevin. :Q What's up with that?

Cheers!

 

[socom2]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

This ladder will not kill you but leave you with broken bones for sure http://members.shaw.ca/fivelitermustang/video.asx[/Q

LOL, yeah I bet a lot of people were thinking this was yet another repost...

I find it strange that the guy's name who fell off the ladder is both Chris and Kevin. :Q What's up with that?

Cheers!

lol yeah. You got sharp ears! Maybe the lady just messed up names or someting.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
the purpose of a tesla coil is wireless power transmission. This insane dude named Tesla (of course) invented them some years ago, and is the subject of many urban legends (the death ray, his coil drawing so much power that the local powerplant lit on fire, etc. etc.).

The amazing arc lighting you see is kind of a side effect, and probably the reason it never took off. If you build a coil, you can hold a flourescent buld (not sure about normal incandescent) nearby and it will light up. If you have the coil set right (as in not suber powerful) there will be NO arc lighting going on, but the bulb will 'magically' light up. It is really an awesome sight, some buddies of mine built on recently and I saw it in action . . . turn the lights out, turn the coil on . . You can wave the tube around like a lightsaber and it will be the ONLY source of light in the room . . . except for the flourexcent bulbs in the ceilling that were glowing dimly . . . hahaha.

But, the idea never took off because of what you see in those picture. Imagine having one of those attached to ever powerline pole . . . . . .

No, it will not light a normal incandescent bulb.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
the purpose of a tesla coil is wireless power transmission. This insane dude named Tesla (of course) invented them some years ago, and is the subject of many urban legends (the death ray, his coil drawing so much power that the local powerplant lit on fire, etc. etc.).

The amazing arc lighting you see is kind of a side effect, and probably the reason it never took off. If you build a coil, you can hold a flourescent buld (not sure about normal incandescent) nearby and it will light up. If you have the coil set right (as in not suber powerful) there will be NO arc lighting going on, but the bulb will 'magically' light up. It is really an awesome sight, some buddies of mine built on recently and I saw it in action . . . turn the lights out, turn the coil on . . You can wave the tube around like a lightsaber and it will be the ONLY source of light in the room . . . except for the flourexcent bulbs in the ceilling that were glowing dimly . . . hahaha.

But, the idea never took off because of what you see in those picture. Imagine having one of those attached to ever powerline pole . . . . . .

No, it will not light a normal incandescent bulb.