I think Tesla's main purpose was neither music or big sparks but the
wireless transmission of power!
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 1:12 PM Steve White <steve.white1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I will probably get a lot of responses telling me that I am stepping on
> their main interest and to each his own but here goes anyway. Are there
> others besides myself that think that musical tesla coils are a gimmick? It
> seems that Youtube is just flooded with these things. I have got to the
> point where I skip over them. I will admit that it was interesting to hear
> music played on a TC for a few times, but after that it got old very
> quickly. In my opinion, using these coils to play music subtracts from the
> inherent majesty of high voltage generation and discharge. The observers
> are too busy listening to the music instead of admiring the high voltage
> fury. They might as well go home and listen to their stereo. Some might
> say that the only practical use for tesla coils is entertainment, and I
> would agree, so why not add music as another dimension of the
> entertainment? I hear this argument but I just don't agree because music is
> too distracting. When I have observers stop by dur
> ing Halloween, some of them ask if my coil can play music. I happily say
> no because it is a spark gap coil even though they probably don't know what
> I am talking about.
>
> It seems that the ability to play music was an unexpected accidental
> capability of a DRSSTC when they were first built. I expect I will probably
> hear from some telling me that the main reason that they built their TC was
> to play music. What do you think?
>
> Steve White
> Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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