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Registered Member #1107
Joined: Thu Nov 08 2007, 10:09PM
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yea that happened to me once i was in the basement at around 3:30am drilling holes in a pcb and all of a sudden i heard this stomping and soon after my mom yelled what the hell are you doing down here this late i told you to be in bed 4 hours ago and than i was banned from the basement for a week
Registered Member #1316
Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
Location: Cambridge, MA
Posts: 365
Well this year i made a coil gun to impress my 7th grade buddies and an electrical engener my dad knows made me a small tesla coil as a gift. i am researching right now on haw to make my own.
Registered Member #154
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:28PM
Location: Westmidlands, UK
Posts: 260
I never really saw a working Tesla coil untill about 12 years ago when a TV presenter named 'Jonny Ball' demonstrated a small working coil on a UK TV show. I was awestruck and decided i wanted to know how it worked, and its construction. It was to be some 5 years later when since i had an interest in electronics, a google search lead me to Richie Burnets SSTC. I copied his driver circuit and produced my own 10 inch spark....i was hooked I then went on to read and copy other guys SSTC work of Arran and Justin, a guy named 'Chester'. By now there was a new SSTC breed coming along by the work of Jimmy Hynes' VCO DRSSTC and Steve Wards feedback DRSSTC which along with spark growth, the sparks ressembled the branched out sparks of the classical coil. I built my first DRSSTC, i then went on the make another three, the last one finished recently. At the end of the day, i suppose i'm just good at copying other folks's work.......lol but its fun!!
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yea i copy alot of other peoples work right now simply for the reason that i am just not good inough to design my own drivers yet and you are totally right tesla coils are very addicting at least to me because i have sat up til 3am winding coils b4
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Joined: Wed Jan 16 2008, 10:53PM
Location: Doon tha Toon!
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I got into Tesla Coiling in 1997 after seeing a TV programme about lightning that featured some of Richard Hull's work. I built my own conventional coil in 1998 - being in the UK my main influences at the time were Alan Sharp, Mike Tucknott and Bob Golding. I think only one of those men is still actively involved in Tesla coil work to this day! One of my early aims was to de-mystify and optimise the whole "RSG / resonant charging" thing that takes place in conventional coils, and later attempt to document that somehow.
At the time I worked as a power electronics designer so the possibility of solid-state drive was alluring. This background combined with the success of others like Alan Sharp and Mark Barton in this area led me down the solid-state route. Concentrating mostly on CW coils I explored the theory behind solid state TC operation, the advantages/disadvantages of different drive methods and discovered many design pitfalls along the way! Now it seems coils driven by solid-state inverters are more numerous than those driven by rotary spark gaps!
To this day I'm still interested in Tesla Coils but many things get in the way of doing any significant TC work or additions to the website. I still attend some UK Teslathons as a spectator, and to go for a few beers the night before...
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