{"id":23282,"date":"2015-07-12T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2015-07-12T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T03:43:42","slug":"sunday-night-first-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/07\/12\/sunday-night-first-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night &#8211; first fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big day today. My buddy Scott did a first integration of the Solid State Tesla coil that he&#8217;s been rebuilding for me. I had a pseudo-kit SStC that i&#8217;d built several years back which Id used for several years for my shows. I&#8217;d even added a musical interface to the interrupter.. Problem was I kept blowing out expensive\u00a0\u00a0($40) Insullated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT&#8217;s). I have a coffee can of them. Scott vowed to rebuild the coil so it was &#8216;john proof&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s rebuild included new primary and secondary.. a new full bridge (my old one was a half bridge) and a very cool new \u00a0modulator . He created many of the mechanical pieces using the Generators laser cutter which he&#8217;s now deeply in love with.<\/p>\n<p>he did some testing today.. but I wasn&#8217;t there to see.. today he cranked it up.. 28&#8243; sparks and it&#8217;s note yet even tuned.. It looks like it still needs soe adjustment to get a hotter and bigger spark.. but.. hey.. 28&#8243; and under 20 pounds.. i can live with that..<\/p>\n<p>Thank you SO much Scott. you are a true genius.. and a tesla chill whisperer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_8910.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FIId_3AO7es\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-jc<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big day today. My buddy Scott did a first integration of the Solid State Tesla coil that he&#8217;s been rebuilding for me. I had a pseudo-kit SStC that i&#8217;d built several years back which Id used for several years for my shows. I&#8217;d even added a musical interface to the interrupter.. Problem was I kept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/07\/12\/sunday-night-first-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday night &#8211; first fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23284,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}