Singing Tesla Coil.

By Alex in Everything Else on Jun 21, 2007 at 1:53 pm

At Duckon 2007, Steve Ward of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign programmed a Tesla coil to "sing":

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.

Wait till 1:04 mark, you should hear something very familiar (Mario!): Link (Embedded YouTube video) – Thanks soops!


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  1. Cuimhne
    Jun 21st, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    That link is prompting for a password….

  2. Alex
    Jun 21st, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Weird, it worked for me.

    Here’s the direct link to the YouTube clip: Link.

  3. Cuimhne
    Jun 21st, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    Thanks :) though suddenly it’s working! Ah strangelness… Cool video by the way

  4. Alex
    Jun 21st, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    Probably just the website’s server issue, cuimhne. Although I prefer to chalk it up to magic. Yeah. Magic.


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