[Peter] sent in his latest Tesla coil experiment. He calls it the “Eye of Sauron” effect. It was created by adding a rotating breakout to an already powerful Tesla coil. It isn’t quite the same as the old evil eye of Tolkien’s dreams, the picture is a 22 second exposure of two rotations of the 7 foot aluminum tube.
really really cool. genius
Posted at 11:08 pm on Feb 3rd, 2007 by justdave
beautiful.
Posted at 1:07 am on Feb 4th, 2007 by Jason
Woah now that is cool!
Posted at 4:31 am on Feb 4th, 2007 by Tom Parker
brilliant! … long live tolkien!!!
Posted at 6:41 am on Feb 4th, 2007 by bluebonics
Meh. Its cool but as far as the “Sauron’s Eye” thing.. nah. 1 rotation per 11 seconds. So standing there it would look nothing like this photo.
Posted at 8:35 am on Feb 4th, 2007 by Damon
If that is a 22 second exposure than that guy standing in the corner of the pic must have been standing there for a long time…… its a cool idea… now just to make it move faster…
Posted at 12:15 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by TGBM
Wicked awesome! He’s lucky he’s in Australia. In Boston he’d be busted as a terrorist.
Posted at 12:32 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by megalo
The nigga bought aluminum tubes! Do I need to tell you what the fuck you can do with an aluminum tube? ALUMINUM! That don’t scare you? Fine. I didn’t want to have to say this but…the motherfucker bought some yellowcake, OK? In Africa. He went to Africa and he bought yellowcake.
Posted at 2:30 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by Super_chris
i got news for you, in australia they’d put you in terrorist jail just for thinking about building a freakin’ tesla coil .. everyone knows australia is owned by chevron, they don’t like no tesla shit down there whatsoever ..
that said, i wanna make me a pocket tesla coil. wonder how.
Posted at 3:09 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by Jay Vaughan
a jpeg is our hack? i’ve always defended you guys against the “zomg!1! this doesnt interest specifically apply to me, how lamezorz!” people, but really, could we have some text at least?
Posted at 7:06 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by monster
Ok, where did all of these terribly misguided posts come from…
in order:
super_chris- Peter (ya, that’s the guys name) is a ~50year old white male. Also, yellowcake is perfectly legal to buy, since it is damn near impossible to make into weapons grade uranium
Jay- He did have some trouble with the Aussie police, but after making a gigantic isolation transformer for his coils (http://tesladownunder.com/Misc.htm#Australian%20safety%20requirements) Also, pocket sized coils have been made http://old.4hv.org/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=1129;start=0
Monster – There is also a link to Peter’s site. Click ‘rotating breakout’
Posted at 9:54 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by ...
http://tesladownunder.com/tesla_coil_sparks.htm#Rotating%20long%20breakout%20point
Well, there you go, Monster. I guess that hiding the link with text in the second hyperlinked word in the paragraph was too much for you to figure out.
Jesus christ.
Posted at 10:24 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by n3rrd
I think Monster’s gripe is rather legitimate: the _read_ link takes you straight to the .jpg file rather than the writeup / article / blog post.
Posted at 10:43 pm on Feb 4th, 2007 by smilr
yeah, n3rrd, it might have been. jackass.
the read link is what takes you to the article or writeup, there was nothing to read there.
should have been a link to the jpeg, then read takes you to the writeup
Posted at 12:06 am on Feb 5th, 2007 by monster
…, that is a reference to chappelles show on comedy central. it was a skit about how much more attention people would pay if the president were black and trying to start a war for bullshit reasons
and jay-vaughn was referencing the mooninite scare a few days agon in boston, heres an article detaling it: http://tinyurl.com/28vq2b
Posted at 12:31 am on Feb 5th, 2007 by monster
I’m the Tesladownunder guy. (Thanks for reminding me I’m 50).
The photo turned out really well and only took a few hours modifications and an hour of setup and shooting.
I take about 5000 photos a year of which 1 in 10 – 20 makes it to my site. I do a lot of long exposures in low light situations. Even though this makes it look more dramatic than it is in real life, a running Tesla coil is still dramatic. If you don’t think so, get closer. I am about 5 feet away with an earthed object in front of me so “fairly safe”.
Yes I stood still for 22 seconds. (I am 50 – did I already mention that?)
I have plans for a really good photo with more universal appeal. I am gathering stuff and constructing this weekend.
Cheers, Peter
Further to that if you want to check out that skit super_chris quoted, it’s at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ERk0xfclLI
I agree 11s/rotation wouldn’t have the same effect to look at, I don’t think he mentions how it’s powered other than “motorized” but I’m pretty sure it could be made to rotate faster than that. It could well just be a sensible safety precaution.
Motor power is by a 24 V aircraft motor with a very solid reduction gear. There is no need to make it fast for the photo. To actually give visual blur at say 10 RPM the tip would be travelling at 360kph.
Anyone have any ideas they think I should try?
TDU
Posted at 5:10 pm on Feb 5th, 2007 by Peter Terren
This one is even better, taken last night.
“Aura of Sauron” with me stnding in the middle of the ring.
http://tesladownunder.com/Saurons%20Aura%201000.jpg
Peter
Posted at 8:57 pm on Feb 9th, 2007 by Peter Terren
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Wow this is cool
Posted at 10:56 pm on Feb 3rd, 2007 by og style