The electrum Project is the worlds largest Tesla Coil at 130,000 watts. Lightning discharges up to fifty feet in length emanate in all directions from the top of the sphere.
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Nothing less than human created lightning. The massive fields generated by resonance between pairs of stepped up induced capacitors create potential differences greater than the resistance of air between the coil and a nearby conductor. This allows fractal currents to flow as the air itself conducts and ionizes.
Although Tesla coils are largely created for fun by dedicated enthusiasts, they originally had a real purpose in mind. Tesla figured that he could create a wireless electrical grid and went as far as to build a tower on Long Island that would be its first transmitter. The idea was never realized, however in Russia really large scale wireless power networks were actually tried, as can be seen in this list.
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A 10 foot aluminum pole is attached to the end of a rotating Tesla coil, sweeping around like the a clock hand to provide the ultimate in theft prevention for your car.
Building on the Electrum Project, this concept was to build giant Tesla coils in the Nevada desert, to create lighting on demand and be able to study its properties.
The Tesla coil is one of the few scientific devices where the original is generally accepted to be the largest of its kind, ever made, capable of generating fields of up to 100 million volts. The Russian power station, however, surely uses equipment that exceeds what Tesla himself achieved. Shown here is the famous picture of Tesla calmly reading a book, while all hell appears to let loose around him.
A tower was built on Long Island which was intended to house the coils for a truly massive wireless electric power system.
An exact replica of the famous Tesla coil from the Griffin Park Observatory in LA, was built for the Frys electronics superstore in Freemont. Its shown here within its gazebo-like Faraday cage. This device is just begging for a nickname based on a pun of the word ‘fry’.
The coil which Von Cosel tried to use to bring back the love of his life, from the dead. For the full story visit the link.
The Make site has a great selection of dangerous looking sparky things that you can make from an old CRT TV. This includes, of course, a Tesla Coil.
This coil is identical in layout to Tesla's patent schematics from the late 1890s and was built from a mold owned by Tesla himself.
Tesla coils tend to have on flat coil and one tall skinny one. However, there are different shapes of coil designs such as this which uses one flat (pancake) and one conical.
As far as we know this might be living proof of the Tesla wireless power concept, and the only one of its kind, allowing for an entire town to be powered wirelessly. These giant Tesla style coils are located 30 miles from Moscow near a town called Istra. They look abandoned, although some people have suggested that they are actually functioning, lighting up the night sky, like in a Frankenstein movie. If you know any more about this, let us know in the comments. There are some more amazing pictures of this installation after the link.
Update: see the comments. Although this is extremely high voltage, it is not a wireless power transmitter.
A Danish art group created an adapter board to allow this Tesla Coil to be controlled from a synth keyboard.
Resonance Research have 6 Tesla Coil products that they built for museums or professional displays.
This is the introductory Tesla Coil From Tesla Technology Research. It is available commercially for less than $900.
You can rent this puppy for parties or to scare your neighbors. It comes with 2 technicians and can throw an arc ten feet.
Oaklands Dr Megavolt has been a star attraction at burning man for years, with his elaborate and spectacular shows.
