this would be a tesla coil that i made from stuff i had just laying around the house. i wanted this video to help people to understand that you don't have to buy a ...
now, mine happened to be tuned inbetween the 6th and 7th turn on my primary
(tesla cad told me that, and it works well!) but you don't always have to
have the copper tubing for your primary. personally i have never tried it,
but with a small gauge solid wire (18-24 gauge) i have been able to get 5
inch streamers. i've even had success with some stranded wire but it's not
as good. anyways try tesla cad and add more turns. tell me how it goes!
good luck!
hi i want to build a small but safe tesla coil for my school science fair.
i have read online it releases ozone and can damage electronics like tv's
and computers so i am planning to demonstrate outside . i need i complete
parts list and some help with construction but i don't want it to be to
expensive .i also need to know how to make a salt water capacitor. if you
could help me out that would be great. thanks
well first off i have to say, that is one tiny coil!! it can still work but
i think your problem here is in the primary. you don't have enough turns to
meet the inductance requirement to make a resonant circuit. one way to
determine pretty much exactly how many turns you need is through the
program Tesla Cad. its a great program where you input the specs of your
coil and it tells you how to tune it etc.
okay I have like a 2-2.5 foot high secondary on a half inch PVC tube with a
lamp cord vertical primary 5 beer bottle capacitors in parallel two bolts
for a spark gap and a 3000 volt nst but i also once used my flyback
driver.whenever I run it I get like a 5 cm spark to ground. Please help.
you look like you are getting at least 100000 volts out of yours.
Hey you did a good job on your coil how did you get it to work with both
pos and neg on primary cause when i put both mine on primary it doesnt work
at all. what the problem?