This is a small video clip of my 4" coil with a wadded up piece of paper set on the top-load and set on fire. File size approx 9.1MB
This is the same coil running with a polymer coating on the brass electrodes in the synchronous rotary spark gap. The polymer keeps the gap from quenching. Format is Quicktime for Linux and file is approx. 5.9MB
Here is the full unedited video called "Deanos_Toy.mpg". For a more complete description of this video- see this page. This video is 354.9MB in mpg format.
A chapter from an old text book on DC power supplies (52 pages scanned and converted to .gif format, zipped 694196bytes).
Some more movies/pictures this time of some kind of three phase rotary Jacobs ladder. There are links to the original video, etc. (not mine) and the clip of the strange machine running in avi and ogg formats, as well as a zip file of the individual frames. Hot stuff.
I had trouble finding an alarm clock program that would work for me, So I made this. It is in Visual Basic 4 and has all dependencies included in the package. If you have wine on your Linux box you are in too.
For lazy folk.More info.