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Of Musical Tesla Coils and… Musical Tesla Coils

This compilation is especially for Ms. Babble-Jean Teabag who is currently away nursing a healthy relative back to sickness. It is a collection of videos on musical Tesla coils, compiled by our loyal, trusty, and hardworking intern, Whats-His-Name, the research monkey. These are solid-state Tesla coils, Their primaries run at a resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and they are modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear. No, the electricity is not timed and coordinated to the music: the music is made by these two midi-controlled Tesla Coils! A midi, is of course, is some sort of small electro-magical creature, native to the Russian tundra – and it lives for the opportunity to use its elemental powers to enrich the lives of man. Steve Ward and Jeff Larson, the owners and builders of these Tesla coils, and masters of these highly talented midis, met at Teslathon of all places. Steve is an electrical engineering student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. So, without much further ado… here are those […]