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Ok it's not really a holiday lights display as much as it's some dude that constructed a Tesla Coil in his backyard..... THAT'S SO COOL!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=78576&in_page_id=34&ito=newsnow

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What do you get when you cross an eccentric amateur scientist, lots of open land and more than 500,000 volts of electricity?

Huge light sculptures that literally make sparks fly.

Peter Terren spends his free time practising what he calls the 'art of electrickery'.

Using junk and materials from hardware shops, he carries out ambitious experiments with a Tesla coil ? a transformer that turns electricity into streams or sparks that fire directly into the air or strike nearby objects like lightning.

The coil creates charges of up to 500,000 volts ? and has led to some spectacular results.

The 51-year-old's experiments include a 4.5m (15ft) Christmas tree made from a wire frame with electricity channelled to spark out in the shape of branches.

Anyone considering recreating it as a festive decoration should think again.

'My high-voltage stuff is dangerous and easily fatal,' said Peter. 'I am very nervous around my big capacitor bank. You have to be very careful.'

He also admitted: 'My projects are absolutely useless, in fact not even very good decorations. I think after the twelfth day of Christmas I'll put it away.'

The medical physician, from Bunbury, Western Australia, said he was meticulous about safety.

'I never have a situation where one component failure is all that stands between me and serious high voltage,' he added.

'But I often feel slight tingles from capacitors with some residual charge.'

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The amount of dangerous awesomeness is strong with this one.
 
^ On a scale of 1 to 10, the level of uberness is 749. :woot:

I can't believe he;'s just conducting his experiments in his backyard, :lol:

The sparks looks so cool. Who needs Photoshop when you have a huge-ass coil creating 500,000 Volts. :lmao:

His homemade Faraday cage is seriously awesome and terrifyingly shitty at the same time.
 
It's the structure that makes it a Faraday cage, all you need is a conductive material.
 
i was expecting this clip to be in this thread, but seeing it's not, let me add it:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk[/YOUTUBE]
 
I did a tesla coil for my 5th grade science fair project, woulda gotten first but Mom decided to put up pictures of my post production which was grounds for disqualification. It was so awesome tho that i got by with an honorable mention, but i digress. Anywho, i could only get a gap of about an inch. That being said i capacitors made from wine bottles so...
 
i hate to see what his electric bill looks like.
 
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