 Purely mains powered SGTC
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Toasty
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Fri Jan 22 2016, 11:55AM
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I was wondering if anybody here has expirience with building a tesla coil using your standard 230V mains. i think you can build a seriously powerful coil.
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dexter
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230V is to low for a spark gap...
maybe a beefy 2 position contact/relay connected like this?
unless you synchronize the contact with the AC line frequency to have the cap connected for less than a half cycle it might work... or use rectified mains and drive the contact at whatever BPS you like
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Sigurthr
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Joined: Wed Apr 18 2012, 08:08AM
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What you'd get would basically be a large air-core induction coil. It can be done but it wears out relay contacts quickly.
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kimbomba
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Joined: Fri Apr 29 2011, 03:45AM
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I recently found this mains driven TC: 
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Art
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In that case it looks like the second inductor is the coil of a relay driving the switch. I can’t imagine that lasting too long either. It looks like a vintage relay too.
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