Tesla coil is the popular short name for a resonant air core transformer originally invented by the Serbian born scientist Nikola Tesla. There are different topologies of Tesla coils with their own abbreviation
DRSSTC: Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil
SGTC: Spark Gap Tesla Coil
SSTC: Solid State Tesla Coil
VTTC: Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Kaizer VTTC I
Introduction to the Kaizer VTTC I A VTTC is a Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil and it uses vacuum tubes / valves for the oscillator that is self biasing from a grid leak circuit. I chose...
Kaizer SSTC I
Introduction This is my first solid state Tesla coil, so I went with a sturdy and proven schematic made by Steve Ward. After all, a lot of other coilers have replicated this circuit with great...
Kaizer SSTC II
Introduction This is a modified version of the first SSTC I built, the Kaizer SSTC I. It uses the same secondary, topload and driver board. New things is a full bridge of IRFP460 MOSFETs, audio...
Kaizer SSTC III
Introduction The idea was to build a very small and compact Tesla coil as a gift for my mother that works in various science classes for the lower grades in public school. This driver circuit...
Kaizer SGTC I
Introduction This Tesla coil is my first and was build without any expenses worth mentioning, its the prototype from which I learned a lot about Spark Gap Tesla Coils, high voltage and where to find...
Kaizer DRSSTC I
Published on: Nov 9, 2010. Updated on: Feb 4, 2021 Introduction Building a Dual Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil have been the ultimate goal since I started experimenting with high voltage apparatuses 3 years ago....
Kaizer DRSSTC II
Introduction I wanted to build a small DRSSTC in a few days without having prepared anything, most parts are reused or scrapped from things I have found and saved. Safety WARNING!: Working with electricity...
Kaizer DRSSTC III
Introduction Having already built a medium and a small DRSSTC, I feel that I have the experience and want the challenge of building a large DRSSTC system. 2022 Updated video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbILgrGBdc Safety WARNING!: Working with...
DRSSTC design guide
Introduction to the guide This is a guide that aims to explain a few in depth details and best practices that one should have in mind when designing and building a Dual Resonant Solid State...
Kaizer VTTC III
Introduction A VTTC is a Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil and it uses vacuum tubes / valves for the oscillator that is self biasing from a grid leak circuit. Safety WARNING!: Working with electricity is...
Kaizer DRSSTC IV
WARNING!: Working with electricity is dangerous, all information found on my site is for educational purpose and I accept no responsibility for others actions using the information found on this site. Read this document about...
Musical Tesla Coil Interrupter for SSTC/DRSSTC
All credit for this article goes to Martin Ebbefeld from ctc-labs.de, after he closed down his website we made an agreement of me hosting some of his content. I translated his article as best as...
SSTC Design Guide
This SSTC Design Guide article is to point out some of the design decisions and calculations that is different from a DRSSTC, so this article will not contain a description of all parts used in...
Universal Driver 1.3b
This content originally created by Steve Ward (stevehv.4hv.org) is re-posted with his permission. Having built a few DRSSTC drivers using IGBT bricks, I realized what a pain it was to build the large gate driver...
Universal Driver 2.1b
Some of this content "Universal Driver 2.1b" is originally created by Steve Ward (stevehv.4hv.org) and is re-posted with his permission. Steve Wards work with phase lead compensated drivers is most likely based off the work...
6 Channel DRSSTC Show Controller
Published: July 21, 2021. Updated: July 15th, 2022. This project is about building a Tesla coil show controller that can control up to 6 Tesla coils at once. It will all be housed in a...
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