we're gonna see if you can call lightning to Thor's hammer
what's that noise?
hey guys so I think one of the coolest things
about running a YouTube channel is you never know who's watching your videos so
I got a little story a few months ago we posted a vlog update and in that vlog we
had a baby Tesla coil a few days later we received an email from the president
of applied Tesla technology a company that makes giant Tesla coils and the
email is simple hey guys we've been fans for a few years we recently saw your
video where you were playing with a little Tesla coil you know what we can
do better let's talk a few months later they sent us down to Texas to play with
their Tesla coils we had a ton of fun and I think you guys are going to enjoy
this video
it's a better way to sketch that your line plane ride and that's a local rock
climbing gym
alright now play the clip where i just climbed the wall..
hey guys we're here at applied Tesla technology a company that makes giant
Tesla coils chances are if you've seen a giant Tesla coil on TV or like a Science
Center or something these guys have made it and they invite us down to see how
they make these things my name is Erica I'm the president of applied Tesla
technology I've been doing this now for well over ten years building really cool
high voltage equipment for every type of special effect event display research
project you can imagine
yeah you know around here we're always just kind of waiting for that day where
that eccentric millionaire tech mogul calls us and says hey can you put a
hundred foot tall Tesla coil on my roof today we're using the model 3m TC all
right we have really small Tesla coils like this half MDC you see behind you
all the way up to the 3m TC out there and we can go even bigger with custom
sizes these are our standard rental models so we're gonna make some pretty
big arcs with this - we've modified it for you guys so that it's gonna run at
about 30 kilowatts there's gonna make an arc about 20 feet long so it's the most
power we can process through the system that's really impressive that pushing
the breaker here oh yeah this is gonna max out the main service we have here in
the shop so when we started building the Tesla coils we were working out of a
two-car garage really nothing special going on a couple of work benches and
just me every now and then a friend helping me out we got an opportunity to
bid on a job for Metallica and that really blew it up for us it was a huge
workload a really complicated project for what turned into being a
three-person crew but we pulled it off and ever since then we've been building
these four really unique clients just generally cool values so to give you an
idea - how much power happens instantaneously here each individual
pulse that the arc is formed from is 1.4 megawatts of peak power
so we get this question all the time why do I see people on YouTube touching
Tesla coils and why can't I touch yours well first of all the people on YouTube
touching Tesla coils are usually touching really small ones there's very
little power contain these battery power and things of these yo 12-volt that
looks like you get your cell phone charger and it powers your Tesla coil
that's very very low power stuff so by the time that power enters your body
it's not significant that really is what it comes down to the thing is we're
doing this with 30 kilowatts here we're not doing this with 3 watts so this
stuff is really powerful and the amount of average power that it can put into a
person is truly disturbing so if you're interacting these art you have to do 30
you don't really have a choice 1.4 mega watts doesn't go well with a person the
30 kilowatts of average power cooks anything that you put in the arc but the
Faraday suit allows all that current to flow directly around you straight to
ground where it's totally safe so when we have a large Tesla coil making a
large arc what we're doing for Thor's hammer and Captain America shield here
we're growing the arc it's it's growing almost like a crystal grows it's so when
you see this big art that's 20 feet long coming out of one point it's not
actually what's happening at all if you bring it down frame by frame and you
look at it especially if you're looking at it via something that's really fast
you can see that the arc is growing in sections so we'll start with a pulse
that's maybe a few hundred thousand volts and that pulse might make an arc
that's this long and then before that plasma channel dies off we'll send
another pulse of current into that plasma channel and it'll add an arc that
long to the end of it again and it'll renew the original plasma channel as
well until we get to a point where the plasma channel at the end can no longer
be sustained before the one at the beginning falls away it's pretty cool
the way this actually happens not a lot of people realize that a Tesla coil
happens this way so for more information about any of these Tesla coils visit our
website Tesla coil calm or actually look us up we're trying to get
a good YouTube channel up so hopefully you'll be able to see us on our new
YouTube channel this is the control box
do anything else yeah actually we can do our yeah yeah I've got a Wi-Fi control
prototype in there too okay we need to build a little control box for one of
our projects that looks like this that looks awesome
never broke
that is awesome
yeah
every time a new things are coming they're all customs so we have to tell
them basically these sizes represented our best guess at the type of actors no
I can't jump into my arms I'm surprised
I'm wearing chain
is this possible well it's possible but like my legs have to go forwards because
I can't go back because the chain mails too tight yup that's how balancing a
bike on your heels and front actually this you can you ride a bike yes this
might be this right then he brought her with his flexibility in the loose suit
one of the fun things you can do with Tesla coils is play music
we're gonna see if it's possible to call lightning to Thor's hammer your
ancestors called it magic and you call it science well from where I come from
there one the same
well I hope you guys enjoyed that video and I hope you're excited for a big make
it real project featuring Thor's hammer that's just one part of the video so
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