
Meet V S Sabu, an amateur scientist from Thiruvananthapuram, whose scientific videos are going viral on the internet for all the right reasons. His latest invention, a Tesla coil, has already garnered close to four million views on Instagram. VS Sabu runs a small science experiment lab in Thiruvananthapuram, where a lot of students come to learn about his scientific models.
Speaking to India Today, Sabu said that he created a new type of solid-state - Tesla coil - during the first lockdown in 2020. Tesla coil, which converts 2kW with an input voltage of 230V into an output of 300kV, is controlled using a semiconductor called IGBT or an insulated-gate bipolar transistor. Watch the video for more details.