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Re: My "Sauron" series Tesla effects (was: interesting photo in Aust.)

Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

OK. In the last 2 months I have done the following:
1 "Eye of Sauron" A 6 foot rotating rod on a TC gives a 12 foot diameter ring of streamers when viewed from above and taken with a 20 second time exposure. Like a huge eye with central pupil. Hugely popular on the Web. I have since done larger ones with up to a 22 foot diameter ring of sparks. 2 "Aura of Sauron" I am standing in a ring of sparks appearing out of thin air. The suspended TC and rod giving the streamers is not visible due to motion blur, but the sparks are. Technically my most difficult and striking effect but not as well received on the Web. Just looks too unreal. 3 "Tesladownunder Car Thief Protection" which is the most popular picture. A TC on a car has a ring of sparks around it like an electric force field. People can relate to this one better. The concept of lightning being used to defend your car being is an attractive one. A humorous video has also just been completed. So far not that popular (15,000 hits in the first week but fading). 
All these are on this page.
http://tesladownunder.com/tesla_coil_sparks.htm
In addition, (of little interest to the Web) is the 14 foot radius spinner which did NOT work with a TC but did work with 60kV DC. This needs to be explained as smaller spinners work fine. I would like discussion on this one. Pictures and discussion here: 
http://tesladownunder.com/Lifters.htm#Ionic%20spinners

Tesladownunder




Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>

OK, that was cool AND artful.  As to why there hasn't been a greater
buzz on this list - I generally don't click on links unless the poster
takes the trouble to explain what is at the link and why I would want to
see it.  Just posting a URL without words to describe it suggests an
unremarkable outcome.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:37 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Interesting photo and video of coil use in Australia
>
> Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks Bart and Terry
> Of course you could get it from the source directly.
> http://tesladownunder.com/tesla_coil_sparks.htm  which has all the
> pics and videos
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nRqbQr7VGk for the YouTube low res
video.
>
> It is interesting to me how little reaction there has been from
> either this Tesla list or 4HV forum to my recent stuff with rotating
> breakout points and long exposure photography which is original work.
> In the public domain I have had over 100,000 hits to my site and the
> pics have been seen on hundreds of sites and blogs by perhaps 500,000
> people if you conservatively estimate that only 1 in 5 links through
> to my site. The video is only a few days old but is now getting
> almost 10,000 hits per day.
>
> Contrast that with vigorous discussion about plastic cup capacitors
> on the Tesla list. Strange.
>
> Peter (Tesladownnder)
>
>
>
> >Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Now that's a video! Excellent video and story line.
> >I really enjoyed that.
> >Thanks for sharing,
> >Bart