August 2008

First Tesla coil test footage

August 15, 2008

We managed to get some footage of the tesla coil running last night, just before we switched over from a static gap to a rotary gap. It looks like the rotor is not quite in sync with the up and down swing of the AC line voltage. So that’s the next thing to fix.

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Third Light – First Shock…

August 8, 2008

OK, it had to happen eventually! Last night I performed the flu-tube test on our coil to see if we had it tuned at the fundamental frequency – while I was waving the tube up and down the secondary some sparks jumped and touched the metal end of the tube. I got a rather unpleasant [...]

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First Light

August 5, 2008

Success! I cleaned out most of the burning from the inside of the coil. Then mounted the toroid back on the secondary with a nylon bolt. I’m also pleased to report that the Tesla tuner I built was pretty much spot on with the tap point of the primary coil…

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