I noticed that racing sparks have burned themself into the surface of the varnish on the secondary coil of my first DRSSTC. This Tesla coil have seen the most use, both indoor and outdoor, have experienced lots of racing sparks and despite the abuse, runs very well. On a cold day, I breathed on the […]
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Tesla Coil Teardown and test of a Post-Soviet era Tesla coil. Hardware and circuit analysis with a spark throwing test. For a discussion of teardown and hardware, come on over to HVF and join the fun 🙂 Tesla Coil Hardware This Tesla coil teardown revealed a pretty solid build, but with a few bad design
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This video shows your the method, tools and best of all, a few tricks to get a good Tesla Coil secondary coil varnish job done! This is something everyone can do, from a cheap battery drill to a expensive servo/stepper motor winding rig, its about the skill and not just expensive tools. You can do
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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