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Funding Unsuccessful

This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on December 10.

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66 Backers

Access to the monthly project construction updates and our thanks for helping to make this project a reality.

Estimated Delivery: Jan 2012

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74 Backers

Everything included above, plus a beautiful high resolution 8x10 action shot of the Lightning Foundry twin prototypes in operation.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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39 Backers

Everything included above, plus two general admission tickets to a Lightning Foundry public performance. This special Kickstarter offering is about half of the retail ticket price.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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27 Backers

Everything included above, plus a Kickstarter exclusive: For the first time on DVD -- Electrum, by Alberta Chu. A documentary on the construction and installation of the largest Tesla Coil in the world. You’ll also get a commemorative Lightning Foundry 12” etched stainless-steel ruler, featuring dual units. [32nds and mm.] Please read the 'Important Notes on Rewards' for shipping details.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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12 Backers

Everything included above, plus two special ‘Major Lightning Foundry Backer’ invitations to a Lightning Foundry public performance. The two Major LF Backer invites will have preferred seating and access to the strike zone after the performance, so come say hello and visit the machinery. The public performances will feature first-ever demonstrations of multi-hundred foot arc discharges and their effects on objects. Please read the 'Important Notes on Rewards' for shipping details.

Estimated Delivery: Feb 2012

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31 Backers

Everything included above plus a beautiful high energy electrical discharge, trapped in a 2" solid acrylic block. [Please see the photo to the left] These figurines are made by using a multi-megavolt particle accelerator to trap high speed electrons in an acrylic block, then explosively releasing the charge with a grounded spike. The fractal discharge patterns continue all the way down to the molecular level. Please read the 'Important Notes on Rewards' for shipping details.

Estimated Delivery: Apr 2012

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6 Backers

The ‘Enthusiast Pack.’ Everything included above, plus an invite to transform an item of your choice with a multi-megawatt electrical discharge. Visit our San Francisco lab and personally fire our ½-ton high-energy capacitor bank into your item to help it achieve a high state of division. Optionally, you can send the item to us and we’ll energize it for you, plus provide you with a slow-motion video. Please add the appropriate return postage to the pledge for this option and see the 'Important Notes on Rewards' for shipping details.

Estimated Delivery: Apr 2012

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1 Backer • Limited Reward (11 of 12 remaining)

The ‘Experimenter Pack.’ Everything included in the Enthusiast Pack, plus three exclusive offerings: *****A) A lifetime ‘Principal Lightning Foundry Backer’ membership, providing free admission(+1) to all Lightning Foundry public performances, access to the strike zone after performances, plus invites to special testing events. Please read the 'Important Notes on Rewards' for shipping details. *****B) A ‘Million Volt Ride’ on our large experimental coil in San Francisco CA. Personally throw 25ft electric arcs at any item you wish to bring along, and live to tell about it. Jamie Hyneman climbed this coil with his custom salt-water cannon and fired a plasma discharge at the 'bad guy' in the water-jet stun-gun episode of Mythbusters. *****C) An invitation to place an item of your choice inside the strike zone of the completed, full-scale Lightning Foundry. This could be either a machine that intentionally uses the ambient fields for power [you’ll receive a special award if you can outrun our ‘Tesla Roadster’, pictured at left] or it could be an item that receives the electrical energy in an uncontrolled fashion, and is inevitably consumed.

Estimated Delivery: Apr 2012

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Connected as Lightning On Demand (36 friends)

I'm an electrical engineer and enthusiast. I've worked around particle accelerators and high-voltage machines for most of my life.

I founded LOD in the early 1990's to explore uses for high-energy and pulsed-power devices outside of the traditional national laboratory scenario.

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