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Build Your Own Tesla Coil
screenbert writes "Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbors from trampling your backyard, but
just couldn't find the system to really deter them? Well this
site shows how they built
a bi-polar Tesla Coil system. I've always loved the Tesla coils on C&C when
they'd zap the units as they went by.
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I need one of those to keep my roommates off my leftovers in the fridge.
Every college student knows that to keep your roommates from your food, you just poisen some of it, after the first couple of them die, the rest learn pretty quick. It may not be high tech but it gets the job done.
Make yourself a Pedestrian Electro-Bastard Array!
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
How to have fun in a computer lab #14:
Two words: Tesla Coil
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
Any other pyros out there really really envious right now? I'm about to turn traitor any second. Matches just do not compare
That's actually a picture of his server after this story was posted.
"Hey everybody! Watch this!"
Egads. I guess these are the guys who always ignored the "don't try this at home" warnings, huh?
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
That picture of the "Man of Great Potential" is really giving me strange ideas.
Anyone that can "walk around" with a 3000 lb power transformer, two 12 foot conducting towers, and generating 40 KW of electricity probably doesn't need the help of a tesla coil to be annoying.
Before Slashdot posts stories like this, they should very expressly warn their readers about the dangers inherent in such projects. Although a simple Tesla Coil is not particularly dangerous, if a Tesla Coil is turned into a mobius strip and enough energy is put into it, a electrotemporal-topological disaster can result, plunging an area up to 5 kilometers around it into Dirac Space.
You can find more information about this strange and dangerous phenomenea here .
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
that's what it looks like when i beat off in front of my computer for two hours at internet pr0n.......... :)
Duh, that's why you build the nuclear power plants.
So, this is a great idea, and a cute trial.. but you're never going to get a tesla coil that can really injure people
Yeah, but I bet it will keep the neighbor's cat from pissing in my flowerbed.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
C&C Music Factory? What?
(* I can see this causing brown outs if you do this in the local small town. *)
When a bunch of angry people with Einstien hair-do's show up at city hall, you know you have gone too far.
Table-ized A.I.
#2 Video tape it and sell it to a Japanese game show so they can place bets how long it will take you to die.
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When I was in high school, one of the teachers had a small Jacob's ladder (basically what you just described). He would use insulated tongs to put an uncooked hot dog inbetween the rods. The spark would climb to the level of the hot dog hover there cooking the hot dog for a few seconds until the hot dog exploded in a shower of carbon and meat. It also detonated pickels. I'd hate to see what it would do to a finger.
i take no credit for this, this is from UPL18, written by Jolly Spamhead, http://phonelosers.net In this article I'll show you how to make a very effective modem killer weapon, especially on crossbar phone systems (CPS). I take no responsiblity whatsoever if you kill yourself or get hurt in an attempt at trying to do this fucked up trick or for some reason it just doesn't work anymore as I haven't performed it since early 1998. A great person once said it is never too late to pass infomation on...so on wit the show bitch! What the fuck is this strange device? It's a Tesla Coil! Concentrated static electricity you f00l! The Tesla coil when properly used will generate litrally thousands of volts at very low amps. That just happens to be the right current to bake silicon chip cookies over a open camp fire strumming Bodycount songs! Construction: 1. Disconnect all phones from your line. Disconnect answering machines and any data-transmission devices. 2. Run a test on the coil and disconnect nearby grounded objects. (Lamps, stereos, TV's, Sex Vibrators...) 3. Connect one phone that you would'nt mind maybe having to sacrifice for the act of revenge.(It usually doesn't destroy phones, but people have told me they have seen them melt off walls!). =) 4. Connect iron or steel balls to the green and red wires of your connected phone (aka the biege box wires that go on the clips.) It and 12 terminals of your phone. 5. Put on a pair of thick rubber gloves (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT STEP HERE!) 6. Charge the coil to at least 10,000 volts. An ideal setting is around 18 to 19 thousand, but 10,000 will jump Ma-Bells line surge protectors and that's what we are trying to do here. 7. Hold metal balls in your left hand. In your right hand hold your cock and proceed to stroke firmly until climax is reached, then lick up the mess! Just fucking around here again! =) Just Make sure the balls don't touch each other ok? Great! When the coil is fully charged, clip the steel ball connected to the red wire to the base of the Tesla coil and hold the other metal ball as far away from the coil as you can. 8. Dial the offending modems phone number (OCI's fax # would be nice). 9. When you are connected, move the metal object connected to the green wire within 2 feet of the coils top. Don't be afraid of the little bolts of electricity shooting from the top of the coil...its only the stuff that hits poor hopeless saps like Amit Grover AKA Foreskin boy every once and awhile. 10. Within 3-5 seconds a huge bolt of lightning will shoot forth at the phone from the hand you are holding the balls in. Hold on tight cause it will feel like a load of ants! You will immediatly hear many strange occilations to the carrier on the phone. The last noise you will hear from the phone is a pop! That is the last cry of agony as the modem shuts down This is guaranteed to fry the modem, the computer and any peripherals connected to it like Scanners, printers, 8-ball porn cams.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
And Tesla, himself, was nothing more than a floating head with squid tenticles, IIRC.
If you don't get the joke, just move on.
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I built a medium sized Tesla coil for a school project. I put it in my car the night before and someone moron my complex parked next to me and thought it was a bomb.
I was awoken by a phone call from the police at 1AM with no less than 4 police cars and 3 firetrucks in my condo development. They actually were trying to shield nearby condos from an explosion with the firetrucks. The bomb squad was being dispached.
I had to leave my condo in only my boxer shorts and give an oral report on how a Tesla coil works.
I cover it with a blanket now when I move it.
...induce currents in just about anything electronic and degauss anything magnetic nearby.
And the reason nobody thought of plugging on one of these suckers just outside One Microsoft Way is...?
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our American dead!