[TCML] [Australia] Backyard boffin's shocking hobby

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Backyard boffin's shocking hobby
By ASHER MOSES - SMH | Friday, 19 December 2008

PETER TERREN/Tesladownunder.com

By day he's a doctor but, when the sun goes down, Australian amateur 
scientist Peter Terren spends his spare time tinkering with 500,000 
volts of electricity, practising the art he's dubbed "electrickery".

Some middle-aged fathers with the urge to build things spend their 
weekends holed up in a shed making spice racks and cubby houses, but 
Terren, from Bunbury in Western Australia, is happiest conducting 
ambitious experiments with his giant lightning machine known as a Tesla 
coil.

"The thrill of being next to something that is potentially lethal, 
incredibly noisy ... that's the stuff I like - control and power - just 
like kids like playing with blasters," Terren, a 52-year-old father of 
three, said.

[...much etc...]

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