Monday, 19 March 2012

TECHNOLOGY: Tesla's Gotta be Rockin' and Rolling

You can create music with Tesla coils if you know how to modulate their 'break rate' with MIDI data and a control unit. Case in point. Here we have two solid state musical Tesla coils, using a combined 24KW of power, to play a version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1974classic 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bbLshnfu0wY

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