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Login/Join to ParticipateFuture pyrotechnician...? Or something.
111 posts
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
I reckon it'd be pretty cool to be spinning staff or poi and "catching" lightning with it... haha, but yeah. This is a pretty cool idea, I'd like to see what some people come up with for this concept.
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HOP OM
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Location: HOP Central, New Zealand
Awesome, like the Tesla coil electric show ( with staff )
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where is the "like" button?
way cool
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336 posts
Location: Scotland
i want to wire myself up to one and crack a chainmail whip, I'd feel like zeus or something...
even chuck norris can't pin you down if your on fire
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Location: Fort Worth , Texas !!!!!
anybody no how to make one?
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4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
Try this.
Might work for you.
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Geek
1,261 posts
Location: Manchester, UK
Maybe 'Tesla Coil' should have an automatic warning link like fire breathing
They are SERIOUSLY dangerous! They are definitely not toys.On the technical side of things... someone on my course at uni made one this year. Only a small one but it is possible to scale it up. I wouldn't attempt to build one without a LOT of research and preferably a very good engineer or a physicist to deal with the calculations / design elements. If you are going to build one you need to know exactly how it will behave before you start (especially if you want to use it for a show).
Unofficial Chairperson of Squirrel Defense League
4,061 posts
Location: South Africa
I would love to make a usb powered tesla coil. Just because.
Also, much lower power. No idea if it is possible though.
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
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lurking like a ninja with no camouflage..
926 posts
Location: over yonder, New Zealand
I saw this in one of the fire shows at Glastonbury, its soo amazing and I relly want to get into this, but again, would want an engineer who knew what they were doing and know all the risks myself, and be trained in what to do in all cases!!
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Sneaking
1,207 posts
Location: Free falling through time, United Kingdom
I'm totally down for that malcolm, could be a wicked project
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Just Icarus//Spinner//Pyro//Geek
261 posts
Location: New Zealand
That would be epic.
Out of curiosity, is that in Christchurch Malcolm?
Just Icarus//Spinner//Pyro//Geek
261 posts
Location: New Zealand
I've never had much success with Van De Graff generators tbh, they're temperamental prats IMO.
Plus, it's only static, so you've gotta wait for quite a while whilst they build up a charge... As opposed to a bigger Tesla, which can just draw the current right off.
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