3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Get Started

Learn more & Get Tips

Favorite

Tesla Coil Projects

Download the eBook

"Tesla Coil Projects" provides the complete step-by-step instructions for 8 different Tesla coils . All projects come from Instructables.com, are written by our creative community, and contain pictures for each step so you can easily make these yourself.

Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. We provide easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people like you to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and more. Check it out today!

Laura Khalil

Editor: Outside, Play, Technology, Workshop

Instructables.com

8 comments

Oct 4, 2011. 8:52 AMamorales16 says:

could i power some house equipments (fridge, pc, etc.) using one of this, i read you can, but how do i conduct the electricity to the object i want to power??

Jan 12, 2012. 4:52 PMwolfkeeper says:

Yes you can. You use a second passive Tesla coil to step down the high voltage/low current to a lower voltage/higher current that is suitable for the device you want to drive. You also would need to tune the sending Tesla coil so that it didn't quite spark since sparking wastes power.

Oct 12, 2011. 11:58 PM

iceng says:

Not likely Teslas are high frequency (to protect you), High enough Voltage to ionize air (make sparks) and _{low current} (barely enough to light a fluorescent
lamp) Rather impossible to run a refrigerator compressor motor :-)

A

Aug 8, 2011. 2:16 AMkonkin says:

Wow, super. I like it !

Jun 1, 2011. 7:35 AMtinker234 says:

wow the soild state would be fun to have 4 6ft tall ones in a room

Apr 23, 2011. 6:51 AMJimmy Proton says:

If only Tesla was still alive, he would be amazed at how great his inventions have become!!!

May 31, 2011. 8:57 PMThe nerdling says:

i he would see all of his inventions now he wpould probably faint

Apr 19, 2011. 8:54 PMMROHM says:

I like HIGH VOLTAGE This is Fun!!! Nicola Tesla You Make GREAT COILS!!! And I might say The Leader in Long Distance High Voltage Transmission!! (Mr.Tesla that is!!)