[Robotgroup] High Voltage

[Paul Atkinson]

Marvin,

Perhaps you could mount a taser/stun gun in the Babyhead mouth and get the
same effect - from a 9 volt battery.
I have enough "fun" with 120/240 VAC, I'm not going to push it.

Paul

On Jan 18, 2008 6:44 PM, Marvin Niebuhr <marvart at txwinet.com> wrote:

> Hey Ed, I love your stuff and I wish I could help you but I am pretty
> primitive in high voltage. I go as high as 440, but I am a great
> artistic adviser. How about a Screamin' Babyhead spiting out some
> high voltage arcs. Marvin
>
> On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Edwin Wise wrote:
>
> > Hey Peeps,
> >
> > I'm ramping up to make some high-voltage stuff for ... umm... because
> > I can dammit!  And I want HF/HV sources for special electrical (and
> > fire and plasma) effects this May, October, and going forward from
> > there as well.
> >
> > I'm not an analog engineer so the reading I've been doing has been
> > quite intimidating (but I've plowed through a STACK of stuff in both
> > book and online form).
> >
> > I've also found, maybe, some guys (via a Craigslist post, of all
> > things) who have or will-be doing some Tesla work, to act as partners
> > in crime, er, collaborators.
> >
> > Of course, I also thought of y'all -- anyone in here want to hook up
> > and work with me on this thing?
> >
> > I want to go with solid-state control, on all versions; with self-
> > tuned resonance for the tesla, and a variety of pulse control for both
> > tesla and other HV (e.g. flyback), not unlike what the singing coils
> > do, but not necessarily to make them sing (you get different discharge
> > effects at different frequencies and whatnot).
> >
> > So. whaddya say?  I'll buy most of the parts.  How can you resist?
> >
> >
> > Edwin!
> >
> > PS: I'm North, IH35 and Parmer.
> >
> > PPS: I have in hand (from a friend, who owns them) two ancient tesla
> > secondary windings, a bloody weird transformer, and an interesting
> > flat tesla primary coil, from the movie biz.  Ancient.  And there are
> > a few MORE of these in Ohio we are plotting to transport. It would be
> > neat to spark these up too.
> > ---
> > Edwin Wise, Rogue Technologist
> > Simulated Reality Systems, LLC
> > www.simreal.com
> >
> >
> >
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