My Tesla Coil

by TheTeslaWarrior

16K2014

Intro: My Tesla Coil

 a video of my tesla

14 Comments

DevCoder 13 years ago

you should consider adding a toroid/other top load to your coil, it makes it have significantly longer sparks

TheTeslaWarrior 13 years ago

this is kind of a small coil but i have 1/2 in steel ball that helps... my big one will have a top load first i need a new capacitor the last one was fairly entertaining when it blew :D

DevCoder 13 years ago

you should wrap some glass bottles (beer or snapple bottles work well) in foil and fill them with salt water and oil, they work great as HV capacitors (6 of them for 9 kV works for me)

TheTeslaWarrior 13 years ago

i found them to be very hit and miss i prefer a mmc bank because you get exactly what you want and you can tune the coil much easier. thanks for the suggestion though.

gdp002 13 years ago

Beautiful, Bravo. I really want to build a tesla coil.

chriskarr 14 years ago

If I say yes, will you want to build one? ;)

Yeah, it could kill a person if they were extremely unlucky.

Xellers 14 years ago

Is this a coil that you built - or something like http://www.scienceartandmore.com/browseproducts/Tesla-Coil.HTML ?

TheTeslaWarrior 14 years ago

 no... mine is 120,000V so its a bit bigger, i didn't make it but i am making a big one that should get me 3ft arcs :D