Comments on: Tesla coil Super Mario Brothers theme: Don’t tase me, Wario

By: greatslack

greatslack — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:51:26 +0000

Here’s a link to that video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOkTrqTd0hw

By: greatslack

greatslack — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:46:38 +0000

Basically the signal is sent through a filter which turns a switch on or off every time the wave crosses zero ( think of a sine wave). So a 44 KHz signal would cause the tesla coil to switch on and off 44 thousand times a second. I saw a video of this a while back, and that seemed to be the gist of how it worked.

By: Joey Tyson

Joey Tyson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:20:59 +0000

Not sure how much this helps, but:

“The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.”

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/63317/detail/