Well, I'm a big nerd but once I was a small nerd and at that time I was
making high voltage things out of carry ignition coils back in high school.
And then I rediscovered this from the internet and said, oh, people can make
Tesla coils. I'll make one too.' And then it sort of came from there and
I made them bigger and bigger and, you know, you aim to have the best.
A sort of boys toys type thing.
My name is Peter Terren. I'm a Tesla coil
and high voltage enthusiast. I live in Bunbury, Western Australia. It's right down
the southwest corner. It's a nice quiet place. It's surrounded by bush,
the neighbors have all shifted out, you'll see why.
I think I'm an ordinary guy. I like to think myself as a nerd and so on and a mad scientist,
but I guess all in all I'm just a quiet suburban doctor really.
So that's the beginning, the middle is
that I've got this hobby which is sort of quite off beat
and much more interesting my day job. And the end of it is old age.
I don't want to be touching that bit there that bit there because I won't get there.
I actually also invented the Tesla coil myself.
When I say, 'I invented it,' it obviously had been invented before
but you know that was the days of the internet.
And it created a glow and this glow in the complete darkness I was looking in. It was
just suddenly a glow around the end of a wire. And it was just magic.
Then that is one of these really inspired me to do high voltage things.
I've never had a decent shock.
Tesla coils are useless. They don't do anything. They're not used for anything.
They're loud, noisy and they do strange things and lightning and it's all scary
but they don't do anything useful apart for that.
Crazy things, that's what I aspire to.