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[TCML] [Australia] Backyard boffin's shocking hobby



www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4797417a4560.html

Backyard boffin's shocking hobby
By ASHER MOSES - SMH | Friday, 19 December 2008

PETER TERREN/Tesladownunder.com

By day he's a doctor but, when the sun goes down, Australian amateur scientist Peter Terren spends his spare time tinkering with 500,000 volts of electricity, practising the art he's dubbed "electrickery".

Some middle-aged fathers with the urge to build things spend their weekends holed up in a shed making spice racks and cubby houses, but Terren, from Bunbury in Western Australia, is happiest conducting ambitious experiments with his giant lightning machine known as a Tesla coil.

"The thrill of being next to something that is potentially lethal, incredibly noisy ... that's the stuff I like - control and power - just like kids like playing with blasters," Terren, a 52-year-old father of three, said.

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