Okay, so I understand how the Tesla coil works in principle. I think. Something about tossing very low current, high voltage charge between circuits that resonate at similar frequencies. This, however, blows my mind:
Any help? Find a better explanation online?
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January 6, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Basically the piano makes a noise, which is a wave. The little box makes the sound wave into 1's or 0's. Then tuns it into light to travel thourght the fiber optic cable, to a circuit board. The board reads the 1's and 0's.
Then turns the coil on and off in certen ways to reduce the wave length produced when the electricity coming from it. Basically.
January 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Sweet! Now I understand that. Can you (or anyone) explain/find out how the frequency is reduced? What's the squaring thing he's talking about?
January 7, 2009 at 9:54 PM
I think i have a solid explanation.
All sound is is vibrations.
the way electric instruments work is a thing called a pickup takes the vibrations from the strings and turn them into electrical impulses, the guitar cable takes the impulses through itself and into an amplifier, the amplifier adds x amount of watts to the signal, the boosted signal gets pushed into a speaker which has an electromagnet, the boosted electronic signal activates the electromagnet and pushes and pulls the speaker cone to recreate the vibrations in the guitar, only through the speaker, all the coil is, is the pure electronic signals striking through the air
the squaring thing is basically boosting the signal so the coil can pick it up and put it out
January 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Awesome. I'm going to try to track down this waves thing (I need a visual), but it's always good to finally know how these things work. Thanks, man.
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