Artistic and functional replicas of Tesla's equipment

Bob sez, "Nemanja Jevremovic has replicated some of Nikola Tesla's equipment. There are lots of dials, switches, knobs, and meters. The guts of the equipment are beautifully crafted and on proud display. He calls it 'Technical Art'. These creations would be equally appropriate in a gallery or on the set of an old science fiction movie."

Technical Art (Thanks, Bob!)

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In the 1950s it was the rare high voltage freak or high school physics lab who didn’t have a Tesla Coil or a Van de Graaff generator. Nice to see all that coming back. In that same era when TV CRTs over 30″ were available, a high voltage problem also showed up. Roughly 1KV per diagonal inch was needed to produce the raster. The cage around the flyback had to be redesigned to keep from leaking x-rays. Lead was added to the glass.
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I had that problem with a telly I found on the footpath about ten years ago…

It was a big bastard, made dirt cheap in the 90s. Of course it didn’t lack lead (I hope – Philips tube, IIRC), and it went alright for a while, but then I lost some of the magic smoke out of the flyback, and it started arcing to the PCB or something.

There wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. No glue I tried could insulate against all those volts. They’d already found a way to somehow eat through the flyback’s casing, after all…

Kinda wonder how.
Lobster

A Tesla Coil, a Van de Graaff generator, or a big ol’ crucifix if you’re far enough south.