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Day: February 3, 2007

Tesla Powered Sauron’s Eye

February 3, 2007 by Will O'Brien 23 Comments


[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.

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