{"id":26503,"date":"2015-12-05T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=26503"},"modified":"2015-12-05T23:09:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:09:32","slug":"saturday-night-tesla-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/12\/05\/saturday-night-tesla-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night \u2013 Tesla day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a quiet day mostly on my own. I use the time to finish buttening\u00a0up the new Tesla coil that Scott. Rebuilt for me. It&#8217;s the second incarnation of the solid-state coil \u00a0I built before but Scott has redone \u00a0 it to make it more robust (hopefully)\u2026 or as he says it cohn\u00a0proof. \u00a0Most of what I had to do today was mechanical\u2026 Moving components around so that I could put in a bigger supply capacitor. I hope was to get a bigger fatter spark with more current. I have to do some more testing but it looks like it really helped. The sparks are scary even at half Power<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla Stravinsky\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xQ92z2uieus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla test\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LC47q7MWzcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also finished up some mechanical components to make it easier to toss in the car. I put grounded hardware cloth around it in case it \u00a0tries to zap\u00a0itself and made it easier to take on and off the secondary . I \u00a0also got the midi controller working much better. I can now play midi songs from my phone and get them to control the spark. It&#8217;s still a little sensitive. Things like phones don&#8217;t like to be near things like tesla coils \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>maybe i shouldnt\u00a0\u00a0either \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a quiet day mostly on my own. I use the time to finish buttening\u00a0up the new Tesla coil that Scott. Rebuilt for me. It&#8217;s the second incarnation of the solid-state coil \u00a0I built before but Scott has redone \u00a0 it to make it more robust (hopefully)\u2026 or as he says it cohn\u00a0proof. \u00a0Most of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/12\/05\/saturday-night-tesla-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night \u2013 Tesla day<\/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-26503","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\/26503","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=26503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26504,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions\/26504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}