How Do Musical Tesla Coils Work?

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  • Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
  • In this video I show you how you can actually make music with a tesla coil. Then I show you how to convert that energy from the Tesla coil into energy for a light bulb and then convert that signal back into music!
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Комментарии • 774

  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  4 года назад +380

    What would be the best song to play on my Tesla coil?

    • @SINDRIKARL1
      @SINDRIKARL1 4 года назад +78

      Thunder - Imagine Dragons or Thunderstruck - AC/DC, feels fitting.

    • @mychaelmay6321
      @mychaelmay6321 4 года назад +29

      I would love to hear Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce!

    • @vedantagarwal4533
      @vedantagarwal4533 4 года назад +11

      any PINK FLOYD song

    • @Vens8
      @Vens8 4 года назад +3

      Check out my music! Would be pretty cool if you'd play them haha.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 4 года назад +2

      I Don't Want To Be-Gavin DeGraw

  • @wsmith2401
    @wsmith2401 3 года назад +731

    i love that a lightbulb could be secretly vibing and no one would know

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 3 года назад +25

      Always have been, at either 50 or 60 Hertz depending where you live, you can even make a light vibe to the internet if you connect it on the same network as an Internet Over Power thingie

    • @BigJohnM
      @BigJohnM 3 года назад +13

      It's called Li-Fi, we looked into it for our office. It is a wireless signal being transmitted by the overhead lights. We looked at that tech several years ago. It's been out for a while.

    • @theunkownbanana1823
      @theunkownbanana1823 3 года назад +16

      I want to see this being used in a spy novel to transmit information now.

    • @picklefish74
      @picklefish74 3 года назад

      Not exactly.

    • @atashgallagher1631
      @atashgallagher1631 3 года назад +3

      LiFi is an idea where you could have something like 40Gb a second of wireless data by using LED lighting that pulsates like this to transmit rather than radio. It would be amazing however it wouldn't work without line of sight, and it wouldn't work if you turned off the lights.

  • @feraltrafficcone4483
    @feraltrafficcone4483 3 года назад +371

    “This device lets you hear light”
    That’s gonna make raves so much weirder

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 2 года назад +2

      I want him to put a blue filter over the light so we can hear what different colours make

    • @jazermano
      @jazermano Год назад

      @@ashyosings5089 Man, that sounds so trippy. Weird how science can be like that.

  • @pukkandan
    @pukkandan 4 года назад +896

    I'm surprised the sound quality is that good after so many conversions.

    • @nonothebot
      @nonothebot 4 года назад +40

      The conversion is good, but the problem is the bandwith of each device, I'm not sure the light bulb is really made to blink that fast. In the other hand the spark has a quite high pitch.

    • @tormendor8585
      @tormendor8585 4 года назад +6

      you think the sound quality sounded good?? it was absolutely terrble

    • @kreynolds1123
      @kreynolds1123 4 года назад +15

      @@nonothebot If you thought about the brightness, It doesn't need to go fully on and off. Just vary intensity a little. The electrical analog would be a DC biased sine wave. The solar cell panel would generate a DC biased sine wave signal. Removing the DC bias need only a capacitor. Then the signal passing through the capacitor can be amplified.

    • @kreynolds1123
      @kreynolds1123 4 года назад +45

      @@tormendor8585 I think he was expressing that he expected worse.

    • @nonothebot
      @nonothebot 4 года назад +2

      @@kreynolds1123 Thank you for this precision. I didn"t think about it but it makes sens.

  • @abhirupmukherjee6405
    @abhirupmukherjee6405 4 года назад +359

    I wish he taught me science in highschool. Really you make it look so simple.

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 3 года назад +9

      By omitting many details. But the best principles are simple and he explains them well.

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 2 года назад +2

      @@jhoughjr1 Not like school science has to go into more detail. It just needs to create an interest

  • @chalkymilo
    @chalkymilo 4 года назад +401

    imagine doing this in a 13th century village

    • @GloGangBruceWayne
      @GloGangBruceWayne 4 года назад +52

      lol might get stabbed in the neck by some angry dude w a piece of sharpened wood

    • @PappaLitto
      @PappaLitto 4 года назад +46

      STONE THE SORCERER

    • @Sciguy95
      @Sciguy95 3 года назад +32

      @@GloGangBruceWayne probably more like burned at the stake for witchcraft.

    • @nielsbouman1383
      @nielsbouman1383 3 года назад +10

      Imagine playing just music or a recording of a voice.

    • @homohumanoperson4565
      @homohumanoperson4565 3 года назад +2

      burn the witcher

  • @theomore4932
    @theomore4932 3 года назад +40

    That would be such a dope way to hide a recorded message in plain sight. Have a small hidden tesla coil next to a room's light bulb and when someone turns the lights on, the recorded message signal is sent to the coil which in turn lights up the bulb. All they see is constant light, due to the high frequency, but someone with the right device can get close and decode the light into sound.

    • @methylene5
      @methylene5 Год назад +2

      Transmitting sound through light is so old that a when I was in high school in the early 90s, there was a project that used an LED to transmit sound (and it was old back then too). One circuit to modulate the LED output from a sound input, and another photo-sensor and circuit to turn the signal back into sound. I went with another project though, instead I made a bug/spy transmitter, that was so much more useful.

    • @HeyChickens
      @HeyChickens 11 месяцев назад +2

      This is the basic concept of how Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc work. Signal being sent out into general area, but only those whose devices are given the de-coding algorithms can make any sense of those signals.

  • @GraceAlone614
    @GraceAlone614 4 года назад +186

    Screw beats, you'll see me wearing lightbulbs.

  • @jacobopstad5483
    @jacobopstad5483 4 года назад +87

    I find the musical Tesla coil so fascinating! I wonder how much power it consumes compared to a traditional speaker.

    • @mitchyitchy3
      @mitchyitchy3 4 года назад +20

      based on the little knowledge how most tesla coils are made prob not as much as you would think. Most have a way to step up the power from an outlet. Like a capacitor but a tesla form of it. But thats for like table top type ones like you see in the video. The zues musical teslas i am not sure if its the same concept or not.

    • @juntendo6104
      @juntendo6104 4 года назад +18

      @@mitchyitchy3 Musical tesla coil uses silicon conductors to act as a spark gap. The plasma speaker may consume more power but I heared that it acts as a very good tweeter. If the membrane used in tweeter is lighter, it can vibrate air at higher frequency, which is why paper cone is used in tweeter. The plasma speaker uses air so its virtually weightless.

  • @FerreTrip
    @FerreTrip 3 года назад +17

    Music major raised by an astronomer/Physics prof here, _this is so freaking RAD_

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 2 года назад +2

      Nothing major raised by a spanish teacher here, HELL YEAH

  • @redcharget5894
    @redcharget5894 4 года назад +83

    So it’s a music player but it makes your electricity bill 10x more than it should be

    • @surajnainar9060
      @surajnainar9060 3 года назад

      /s

    • @ralseidemurrer
      @ralseidemurrer 3 года назад +1

      yes

    • @mbcommandnerd
      @mbcommandnerd 2 года назад +5

      @Unsesquipedalian Yeah, and a Tesla coil of this size is pretty low-power. That’s also why it’s safe for him to sit right next to it with no grounding and with a metal ring on.

    • @bluelight7official
      @bluelight7official Год назад

      @الزمهرير hey wait i think i know you lmao-

    • @harms123
      @harms123 8 месяцев назад

      @@mbcommandnerd You're technically right, but that's extremely oversimplified and the ring has no effect.

  • @IvanIvan1974
    @IvanIvan1974 4 года назад +29

    Do you hear light?
    No, I see sound!

  • @mikelean66
    @mikelean66 2 года назад +1

    I got real excited around 7 seconds when you started messing with the power inversion to the speaker! This taught me a lot. Thanks!

  • @julie-18
    @julie-18 4 года назад +31

    Okay but seeing light be turned into sound is just something else

    • @KandyBoy69
      @KandyBoy69 2 года назад +1

      Wel that's kinda how radios work.

  • @EvanSilvia
    @EvanSilvia 3 года назад +8

    That was the coolest thing I have ever seen. that was mind blowingly amazing to see the light converted to music, I rang dat bell and shared the crap outta this.

  • @sasssss6265
    @sasssss6265 4 года назад +4

    The energy can never die but you can transform! I love this type of experiment

  • @keiji1531
    @keiji1531 4 года назад +54

    The wireless cable concept was about to made

    • @martiddy
      @martiddy 4 года назад +6

      A hundred year old concept

    • @prestonferry
      @prestonferry 4 года назад +3

      SilentKnightXD it wouldn’t be possible now... All the tall vehicles (Mostly Semi Trucks) would get caught in the path of the plasma, causing major destruction, making it impossible in modern days... Very advanced back then, though!

    • @pepre7594
      @pepre7594 3 года назад +2

      @@prestonferry make it T A L L E R

    • @prestonferry
      @prestonferry 3 года назад +1

      @@pepre7594 that would be too expensive to switch, and it has the possibility of things like catching birds...

    • @pepre7594
      @pepre7594 3 года назад

      @@prestonferry I know I was joking lol

  • @kingsolo6241
    @kingsolo6241 3 года назад +29

    I’ve been a commercial HVAC technician so long that when a VFD fires up any motor I can tell if it is at 100% 60hz or not. In fact in some cases I can hear the frequency is off a little I know the motor is going bad. When I hear the golden hum noise permitted by the VFD I can tell it is working perfectly; especially in amp range, of service factor of course. Lol

    • @gauravbisht4504
      @gauravbisht4504 2 года назад

      Isn't HVAC our cars Automatic AC?

    • @kingsolo6241
      @kingsolo6241 2 года назад +2

      @@gauravbisht4504 hvac means. Heating ventilation & air conditioning

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 2 года назад

      So how did this tesla coil sound to you, if it was a VFD? Will it survive, doctor?

    • @gauravbisht4504
      @gauravbisht4504 2 года назад

      @@kingsolo6241 makes sense why me car OEM calls it that way instead of A/C.

    • @cmyk8964
      @cmyk8964 2 года назад +1

      60Hz is pretty much the low E note on a bass guitar, btw

  • @somsubhra.g
    @somsubhra.g 4 года назад +55

    This is like a basic version of LiFi 👍🏻

  • @abhinavprajapati5962
    @abhinavprajapati5962 4 года назад +1

    Gotta say, this is one of your most informative video I have ever watched.

  • @carlostolosa6530
    @carlostolosa6530 4 года назад +1

    this gonna be my fav. vid of action lab so far.

  • @KT-pe8gw
    @KT-pe8gw 4 года назад +3

    Content like this literally makes me feel good

  • @justincruz6057
    @justincruz6057 3 года назад +1

    this is the best video on RUclips and has changed my life!

  • @MorganaDarkgoddess
    @MorganaDarkgoddess 4 года назад +1

    That was one of the videos I've enjoyed the most! Very interesting!

  • @Gourav_Guitarist
    @Gourav_Guitarist 4 года назад +4

    I wish I was taught this way!! You are amazing!!

  • @Linkario86
    @Linkario86 Год назад

    Your channel is a blessing man

  • @swapnilpanigrahithemotivat7365
    @swapnilpanigrahithemotivat7365 4 года назад +8

    Really I love to learn science practically by you...

  • @MadWitchJay
    @MadWitchJay 3 года назад

    You have blown my brain. This is amazing.

  • @MixedGoku
    @MixedGoku 4 года назад +2

    Great Demonstration Keep Up The Good Work!

  • @creativegamer_03
    @creativegamer_03 3 года назад

    Subscribed to Franzoli Electronics for its Musical Tesla Coils and this video came out rn in my recommendations. Perfect!

  • @MelloCello7
    @MelloCello7 Год назад

    This should have quite literally millions of views, this is beyond amazing

  • @kristianivanov8254
    @kristianivanov8254 Год назад

    RUclips recommended me this video after watching the AscendTech - Bluetooth Tesla Coil. I was wanted to watch something more about the Tesla Coil and I guess the this The Action Lab video is a great choice to do this.

  • @DaneInTheUS
    @DaneInTheUS 3 года назад

    This is absolutely mind blowing! Thank you

  • @frab8061
    @frab8061 3 года назад +5

    That just sounds like a speaker with extra steps...
    No but seriously, this is AMAZING

  • @financewithriaan
    @financewithriaan 4 года назад +1

    Probably the coolest video I've ever seen!

  • @garrettcarlson6835
    @garrettcarlson6835 3 года назад +1

    K, primary reaction... I type in, "can you really make music with Tesla coils?"
    And then *this* guy shows up!? I've seen so many of his action lab videos I was surprised to find this guy answering my question. Hot dang.
    Carry on.

  • @AbandonRule
    @AbandonRule 3 года назад +1

    Love the buildup to just explain the last experiment

  • @ekhmoi4552
    @ekhmoi4552 3 года назад

    This helped me to understand music in a much different level!

  • @Roust7
    @Roust7 4 года назад

    Great demonstration

  • @elbladel
    @elbladel 3 года назад

    The light thing... that's crazy. Great video.

  • @trentonnobles464
    @trentonnobles464 4 года назад

    This video was so cool. I was very fascinated

  • @illogicmath
    @illogicmath 4 года назад

    You're an endless source of ideas.
    Congratulations

  • @MarkHahn
    @MarkHahn 4 года назад

    THAT was one of your best videos my friend 👍 great job

  • @lordsuvrowwwyall7425
    @lordsuvrowwwyall7425 4 года назад

    Changing sounds to light and changing light to sound! coooool!

  • @chiranjeetbhukta
    @chiranjeetbhukta 4 года назад

    That was freakishly awesome

  • @noam_segal
    @noam_segal 4 года назад

    One of your most entertaining videos

  • @richardweicht829
    @richardweicht829 2 года назад

    broooo111 you just blew my mind lol I had no Idea! I just built my very first tesla coil and you just showed me a whole other side of it! thank you so so much! =)

  • @zakirreshi6737
    @zakirreshi6737 4 года назад

    Thanks for the wonderful information

  • @larsbecker9127
    @larsbecker9127 4 года назад +1

    Very interesting you made my day a bit nicer ❤️

  • @randybost9680
    @randybost9680 Год назад

    This guy has the neatest tech I've seen lately. I literally downloaded the strobe light app while the video played.

  • @Vodraxia
    @Vodraxia 3 года назад

    Honestly probably the coolest thing I've ever seen

  • @prithmusic
    @prithmusic 3 года назад +70

    Me: Mom can I get new speakers?
    Mom: We have speakers at home
    The speakers at home:

    • @derarty4290
      @derarty4290 3 года назад +5

      I would exchange my Phillips speakers for this :)

    • @gamebugz-blockstrike842
      @gamebugz-blockstrike842 3 года назад +3

      You have the best speakers at home :)

    • @pulsegamingbird3764
      @pulsegamingbird3764 3 года назад +2

      It also doubles as a wireless power source if used correctly.

  • @thaikarl
    @thaikarl 3 года назад

    That’s so cool. Thanks for the demonstration. 😃

  • @lossofwill
    @lossofwill 4 года назад

    You channel is so awesome. I love ur content. I always Lear something new and you always show it in an understandable way

  • @quinnvanhouten1393
    @quinnvanhouten1393 3 года назад

    Cool video, I learned a lot. Thank you

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 4 года назад +3

    Everytime he somehow makes something amazing happen!

  • @8koi245
    @8koi245 Год назад

    These videos just make me so happy at night

  • @mickpires
    @mickpires 3 года назад +1

    This is so unbelievable that I wanna do on my own what you did.

  • @spymate
    @spymate 4 года назад

    My mouth is wide open! This is so cool!

  • @koifishhh3911
    @koifishhh3911 4 года назад

    I love this video!It looks like your a wizard of light,and sound!!!!I already subscribe!

  • @don_pedrot.isreal7446
    @don_pedrot.isreal7446 Год назад

    Wow, I'm overwhelmed. Truly everything is just frequency.

  • @charleslee1862
    @charleslee1862 Год назад

    The free energy lighting up the bulb is pretty dope too

  • @tinboy9626
    @tinboy9626 3 года назад

    this is super cool man !

  • @JoseOrtiz-vw1ki
    @JoseOrtiz-vw1ki 4 года назад

    This was flipping mind blowing.

  • @zynskavzynskav4465
    @zynskavzynskav4465 2 года назад +3

    Incredible. I can hear the drum and electric guitar. I can't believe this sound can be produced by only a tesla coil.

  • @craigschooled
    @craigschooled 4 года назад

    Mind Blown... seriously. I this is an original compilation of physics and technology. It really represents the cohesion of nature.

  • @garlottos
    @garlottos 3 года назад

    This has to be the craziest video I have ever seen. Electricity is magic

  • @aaronalkor
    @aaronalkor 3 года назад

    Wireless Energy Transferal!! I love it!!!

  • @RuthvikSS
    @RuthvikSS 4 года назад

    This Was Short & Great ! ✌️😎

  • @Joege
    @Joege 4 года назад

    the best! CHANGED MY LIFE!

  • @ianedmonds9191
    @ianedmonds9191 Год назад

    That's super cool.
    Thanks.
    Luv and Peace.

  • @somnathpaul1468
    @somnathpaul1468 4 года назад

    Action lab made my day.😊

  • @groovygrapegramma7161
    @groovygrapegramma7161 4 года назад +2

    Nice. Electrifying💪⚡

  • @theweirdo6695
    @theweirdo6695 4 года назад

    THIS BLEW MY MIND

  • @johndoe-bq1xt
    @johndoe-bq1xt 3 года назад

    Thank you very very much for clearing thibgs up for me.

  • @samgoss9091
    @samgoss9091 4 года назад

    This is so cool !

  • @hamishmacgyver
    @hamishmacgyver Год назад

    Man I love your videos

  • @RoughNote
    @RoughNote 4 года назад +1

    Yeah, really enjoyed, You are just awesome😝😝😝

  • @carlosgdr
    @carlosgdr 4 года назад

    fantastic video !!!

  • @cyprianmaciej1605
    @cyprianmaciej1605 4 года назад

    great experiment!

  • @lamp007
    @lamp007 4 года назад +1

    Would have been nice if we had a video like this when I was taking my signals processing class, would have made it more relatable...especially with how confused I felt in class.

  • @johncharles81
    @johncharles81 2 года назад

    That was one of the most coolest things I have ever seen..😳🤯🤓

  • @rommelfcc
    @rommelfcc 4 года назад

    Very cool!

  • @jamestsai6826
    @jamestsai6826 4 года назад

    It's super cool!

  • @Sam_Dehingia
    @Sam_Dehingia 4 года назад

    Wow... I loved it

  • @amansundriyal7681
    @amansundriyal7681 4 года назад

    Very nice experiment

  • @eljefe9738
    @eljefe9738 2 года назад

    incredible!

  • @JoelBulger
    @JoelBulger Год назад

    That was cool with the light

  • @OmegaFalcon
    @OmegaFalcon 3 года назад +1

    This literally looks like magic!

  • @power-max
    @power-max 4 года назад +19

    When you bring your hands near the coil you actually detune it and reduce the 'Q' factor which causes the output voltage to drop. Imagine making a pendulum but with a water paddle. Your hands loads down the output significantly.

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 2 года назад +1

      He lowkey proved this by 'absorbing' the voltage- technically- HE was the transmitter for a hot second

  • @bobbybologna3029
    @bobbybologna3029 4 года назад +16

    Lmao I watched Medhi Sadaghar struggle with making a van de graaff generator and here you make one out of a freakin La Croix can, hilarious.

  • @blainecoutinho6011
    @blainecoutinho6011 4 года назад

    That's so freaking awesome

  • @EPSTomcat11
    @EPSTomcat11 4 года назад

    Amazing!

  • @BalaMurugan-su8un
    @BalaMurugan-su8un 4 года назад +1

    You are a genius

  • @tyfyh622
    @tyfyh622 4 года назад

    Wow!
    just wow.

  • @assaultracoon4183
    @assaultracoon4183 4 года назад

    Real cool man

  • @thepurrfectcat
    @thepurrfectcat 3 года назад +1

    This one's my favorite episode.

  • @MiguelY22
    @MiguelY22 4 года назад

    This is great, wow

  • @MudOregonVet
    @MudOregonVet 3 года назад +4

    I love this channel cuz that was freakin nuts, I knew most of how Tesla coils made sound, but I didn't know it's electric field could wirelessly power a light or the light converting speaker, that was awesome

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 2 года назад +1

      If an electric field can do THAT, I wonder what these 5G towers can do

    • @martinrodriguez1329
      @martinrodriguez1329 Год назад

      Saying that is like saying "oh I knew a knife could kill people but I didn't know it was used to cut food" like, brother that's sort of the main purpose of the invention xD

    • @MudOregonVet
      @MudOregonVet Год назад +1

      @@ashyosings5089 That's a scary thought

    • @MudOregonVet
      @MudOregonVet Год назад

      @@martinrodriguez1329 I know way more purposes for a knife than that, what I didn't know was what a Tesla coil was capable of, it's not my field of expertise I didn't study it to any extent, I just know what people show off like in the video, other than taking my finger in a light socket I don't have any real need for a Tesla coil so I haven't studied Tesla coil

    • @ashyosings5089
      @ashyosings5089 Год назад

      @@MudOregonVet Let's hope good people put these towers up and not big pharma cause we all know they'd find a cure for whatever electrical burns people get 🤣
      Tune in 2030, 6G making people's phones explode. WAIT, its already happened 🤣

  • @karnamsudeep
    @karnamsudeep 4 года назад +1

    My mind is blown 🤯