Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil
3 well-known classic songs are played with lightning on my medium sized Tesla coil, if you want to play these songs yourself you can find all MIDI files played on the Tesla coil can be found in this forum thread All information, schematics and pictures of my Tesla coil named DRSSTC1 can be found here. […]
3x MIDI videos from DRSSTC1 demonstration Read More »
The 60N60 IGBT full-bridge exploded during a small test of playing MIDI on the DRSSTC. I upgraded it to a SKM200GB123 bricks. DRSSTC IGBT explosions are no joke, 12 days before a show. Can you guess the song that was played? DRSSTC IGBT explosion is properly a bit much to say. It was a silent
Tesla coil DRSSTC IGBT explosion. 12 days before a show, panic! Read More »
It only took me a mere 4 years from I first started this article about the MMC until it is now done for public released 🙂 Not that it took me 4 full years to write on it, but it has been a on/off gathering of information and then finally making a write-up on it. I
DRSSTC Design Guide Updated With MMC Design Guide Read More »
Here is the recording of the live stream I did on 2018 January 31, Wednesday at 2000 CET. I performed a live stream on YouTube to talk about how I started building Tesla coils. The technical story of the journey, that went on for 8 years. Which ended with me having a 3 meter tall
A new article has been added that describes the thoughts, design, construction and test of a very high impedance primary circuit QCW DRSSTC, where the voltage ramp is coming straight from half wave rectified mains supply and a mains synced interrupter is used to trigger at the right interval. Read it all, see all the
Kaizer DRSSTC IV – A High Impedance Primary Circuit Experiment Read More »
Since Martin from ctc-labs.de decided to close down his website, which was all written in German, I asked him for permission to translate and publish some of his content to keep it online and public for others to use. So here is the translated article about his small and simple analog circuit that can be
SSTC and DRSSTC Musical Modulator Read More »
While we had the box open for removing the real-time current control, as you can see in the previous post, I did a walk through of how the coil is put together and what parts have been used. Learn how to build your own Tesla coil and how to make it play music through a
Kaizer DRSSTC III update #7 – Show and tell Read More »
After cutting out the bonding wires to the RTC circuit of the CM600DU-24FA IGBT bricks, which we thought could be one of the reasons that we were not able to trip the 1500 A OCD setting, we had a short test run to witness performance. I will do a video with more details of the real-time
Kaizer DRSSTC III Update #6 – First Full Power Test After Removing RTC Read More »