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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Brock on February 16, 2014, 04:15:34 PM

Title: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Brock on February 16, 2014, 04:15:34 PM: This is so cool.

Maybe I should put it in the lighting section.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgll-XTqcS4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgll-XTqcS4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ovcwnBaOMI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ovcwnBaOMI)
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: STRay (Roo Killer) on February 16, 2014, 04:42:29 PM: You might need to add a few more batteries to the ST first!
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Biggles on February 16, 2014, 05:07:27 PM: I was about to ask how this is done, but now I know (I think...):

Tesla coils can also be used to create music by modulating the system's effective "break rate" (i.e., the rate and duration of high power RF bursts) via MIDI data and a control unit. The actual MIDI data is interpreted by a microcontroller which converts the MIDI data into a PWM output which can be sent to the Tesla coil via a fiber optic interface.
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Brock on February 16, 2014, 05:26:05 PM: Could be fun at night at the national meet..

A bit of Switched on Bach, Telstar, Popcorn (by Hot butter) Dr Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_nqxSgIz4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_nqxSgIz4)
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: STeveo on February 16, 2014, 06:59:37 PM: Wouldn't like to have his power bill.
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: JuST Peter on February 16, 2014, 08:28:42 PM: About 12-15 years ago, I met a man in Sofala (near Bathurst), who has a Tesla coil, who also say if he turns it on, it will disrupt the flow of electricity in a 50 mile (80 k) radius. As the power companies are aware of this, they've told him - warned him would be more likely - that should he turn it on, they'll send him the repair bill.

His name is Richard Wigglesworth and he has a museum of sorts two doors up river from the township. He also has a replica (it could be working by now) model of a steam driven power station; he built it himself by himself from parts of the old Bunnerong Power Station in Sydney.

An interesting 'character' to say the least
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Biggles on February 16, 2014, 08:56:34 PM: You realise that Wigglesworth is a distant cousin of mine. W. E. Johns fans will 'get it".

When I was a teenager and playing with things electrical an older mate commented on a rather large switch I'd acquired saying "Mate, you could switch Bunnerong with that!"
One of those things in the memory banks that you old guys pull to the fore every now and then.

Why would a Tesla coil damage the grid? I would have thought it just drained power the way Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown did to time travel.
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Brock on February 16, 2014, 09:34:42 PM: Its not so much a damage the grid thing, as a wide band RF blanketing thing. I remember the guys at the University of WA saying that if the room they used for theirs, wasnt heavily shielded then it wipe out tv, radio and other electronic signals for miles around.

Nowadays, it would probably wipe out the interweb and mobile phones.... Oh the horror..
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Sabie on February 16, 2014, 09:43:21 PM: I betcha there a Bitch to tune......
Title: Re: An interesting way to clean the oil off the drive way
Post by: Brock on February 16, 2014, 09:53:23 PM: Yeah, gotta get it right, a bad note would make your hair stand up... o:)