Tesla Cannon (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Tesla cannon is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted energy weapon that is powered by electron charge packs. The design was named after Nikola Tesla, but his work was never publicized until after his death as the US Government developed the cannon. When used,the cannon projects a blast that will damage the enemy on impact with an aftermath of electricity reducing the enemies health.

This weapon has an exceptionally high strength requirement for its weight and the fact that it's an energy weapon with no recoil. (Not exactly true, if you connect several batteries in parallel, as in a starting system for a semi-truck or large tractor, and there is too much resistance in the wire to the starter motor, the wire will quite visibly jump, and if the connection is worn or rusted enough, will break right off of the starter motor. Quite scary.  The same type of recoil probably applies here.)

Locations
May be purchasable at Silver Rush on occasion. Also sometimes at the Brotherhood of Steel Hidden Valley bunker after you are allowed to purchase from their weapons cache.

The Tesla Cannon is very rare, especially if players kill off the Van Graffs, thereby eliminating the only specialty energy weapon vendor in the game. It may be more beneficial in the long run to simply retrieve the unique Tesla-Beaton prototype from the Crashed Vertibird location rather than chance it waiting on shopkeepers' inventories to randomize.

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 with the Broken Steel DLC. It was going to appear in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which was canceled by Interplay.