Super duper teenie tiny tesla coil

[teslaandlyne]

Check out Tesla 1891 lecture. One air core inductor inside a larger diameter air core that

had one connection. Thus the outer coil acted as an induction antenna to create streamers and made one wire circuits and perhaps local no wire lighting of gas filled bulbs.

[ismaels91]

@moreczbogdan its 20mA thru the heart not 6

[Vaiktorg]

Hey dude, do u give plans or schematics out?

[Andyman3k]

@Vaiktorg I would if i had any! I threw this thing together with just the knowledge i had heh

[StopFear]

@Vaiktorg

I saw tesla coil instructions downloadable on torrents, I downloaded it, but I doubt any of its actually real secret knowledge

[eekcage]

some people need to learn properly about electron theory before saying "dude like WTF your an idiot for touching" I'm off outside to scream at the tin-foil hat wearing squirrels driving cars !

[awesomelightning]

There are two things I really love: miniaturized vesions of things and Tesla Coils. What happens when you put them together? :3 is all I can say. What would be even more epic is if you outfitted it with a pikachu costume.

[theplatypus3]

you should put a better trioid on it for better, longer streamers

[bcdigit]

my meteorite want to borrow it for a toy. he's so crazy.lol

[sadgeahomlo]

LOL 0:30 looks like a car battery

[zker666]

by adding the toroid you throw the tune of the tesla coil all outta wack

[zker666]

i dare you to lick it

[AiRGuNmOdEr]

ehehahaha....I WILL xD HAHAHAHA NICE ONE MAN ..LAUGHED MY LIKE HELL xD

[integralfrom0to1]

Does that burning G10 board smell nice?

[sctifuzy]

can you make a video on how to make it?

[zezimashock]

i think if you make a wide but flatter tesla.

i think you could get the tesla smaller?

well just a thought i had i would share with you :P

[radudman]

lol nice job, me and my friend slapped a coil with a 12 inch secondary together in about 6 hours, one night. it worked surprisingly well, we just used a static spark gap, it was pretty alright... but good job its very small and puts out decent sparks for its size.

[kr4zyk1a]

hmm....can you make a video on how to make it? and did u use foil?

[zombietyree]

won't the nst spark almost as far as your secondary. Just a thought

[Zelotandpat9]

The out put of the neon transformer is ~132 volts. 2277 25 ---- = ----

12000 131.75230566534914361001317523­057

[Zelotandpat9]

You know those disposable cameras and how they run on AA or AAA batteries? They generate an output of ~330v. Do you think you could use that as a power supply?

[Andyman3k]

If you use a voltage multiplier circuit on the output to step up the voltage, then sure. I couldn't find it again, but I remember a week or so ago, This guy posted a topic on 4hv. org on his tiny coil that ran off of 4 AA batteries. He got some big sparks too.

[kjbaran]

Can you give me the link to where that guy has his 4 AA battery coil?

[Phlatpop]

actually they generate ~220v to charge a 330v capacator

[coatduck]

@Zelotandpat9 they only put out 120v ac, that charges a 330v capacitor. I can see where you went wrong. if it put out 330v then the circut wouldn't need an auto cutoff, and would therefore be smaller, and wouldn't have a capacitor.

[Andyman3k]

I stuttered and tried to say that the input was 277 not twenty two seventy seven. I accidentally said "twenty" lol

[Zelotandpat9]

Lol. I do that sometimes too. If the input is 277 then the output is about 1083v.

With that voltage multiplier circuit, do you think I could use a bunch of those small ceramic capacitors? Any help would be appreciated, as I have a lot of time to kill this summer.

[icecreamdaddy]

hahahaahah! loved it! so awesome hahahaha :D

[122333unitron]

On some bigger tesla coils if you put a cilinder type of light

bulb above it, the light bulb will light up.

[jovicakluk]

pffft thats nothing check out mine its only 4 cm big and gives much better air discharges

[BoerX]

this is fuckin cute! really like it. watch my tc :)

[symfnblue]

do you have a girl friends? i like your tesla

[xFireBirdx]

My smallest (and first) was a disposable camera circuit board and a paper towel tube with 30 AWG wire on it (no top load) and a ceramic cap which made about 1cm arcs at most. My small neon powered one worked off 9kv and made a relatively small output but a lot of corona. I am also currently making a large one and hopefully a solid state one later.

[ducttaperulestheworl]

small,look crappy but it's so cool!!!!!!!!!!!

[lalapubpub]

You fell nothing just because the frequency is to hight for the body, but the power and the burn is here. even tiny.

You can play like this whith a bigger coil without feel anything a the time you play but only later.

[HomeDistiller]

crap

[stuffyousee]

small but still good. :)

[fathomsdeep]

You've got a sexy voice.

[recbo]

but your thumb if purple, cmon, you're just in denial

[OrganicDrew]

there is a skin effect that is probably protecting him from any damage

[eji1973]

DUDE 1/10th of a ampis all it takes to kill ya. Do you have any idea what you are playing with. It is so plain to see you have no idea what you are doing.

[Andyman3k]

I know exactly what I am doing. 1/10th of an amp can kill you at 60 Hz yes. But this is resonating at much much higher frequency around 1 Mhz. The 60 hz can kill you because its slow enough to cause your heart muscles to expand and contract super fast at stop it. 1 mhz is much to high to have an effect on your heart or muscles. The only thing it does at that frequency is burn.

[moreczbogdan]

@Andyman3k well locks like you don't know what you are doing. 6ma THRU heart can kill you at ANY frequency, your mini tc is to small of course but please be carefull for the future.

[awesomelightning]

@Andyman3k Exactly the reason why people survive lightning strikes.

[chalnaruto]

make video wen your killing ants with that

[Tehxazroxorz]

500 millifarad @ 3kv is 2.5 megajoules, you would either not have an arm left or be absolutley dead if this discharged into your finger.

[pmdvy]

no you would not because the high voltage has almost no current, this is not a capacitor it is a kind of transformer the capacitor is just to set up a resonant circuit and the output is a continuous wave at about 3Kv with almost no current so it would not kill you it is still bad for you however

[newtonianbarf]

Ummm.... Divide by one mega. 2.25 joules. .5cv^2

[Tehxazroxorz]

Eh, no. Milli = 10^-3 500MF= 0.5F .25Fx(3000^2)= 2.5MJ He has obviously misused terms i.e. milli for MICRO Farad.

[englund]

this is so cute!

[hapygoyumyum]

Seems like everyone who messes with this stuff gets spaced out.

[Punniabi]

Ya he smokes weed I bet haha

[neruo99]

that wud work better if u uesd copper for the top

[Andyman3k]

At that high of voltage and frequency, it doesn't really matter if you use copper or aluminum

[neruo99]

i know but this 1 isint that high

[my83merc]

1/10th the input = 1/10th the output? 1,200 volts?

[RotorDemon]

lick it!

[swx2007]

Awesome model! But when you connect the toroid, you're actually changing the capacitance and hence the resonance frequency...so why does it work anyway??? Have you tried putting two resonant circuits "in series" to amplify the voltage even more?

[Andyman3k]

I've done that with my slightly larger one. I get quite a bit more voltage.

[ct92404]

This has to be the smallest Tesla Coil I've ever seen! It's cute, but no way are you getting resonance with this. With a winding that small, the resonant frequency would be at the microwave level. Also, don't ever try touching a spark from a coil with your bare hand! It won't shock you, but you can get RF burns (I got hit by sparks from my coil one time and I still have a small scar on my hand). Hold something metal in your hand and draw sparks from the terminal with that instead.

[swx2007]

Do you mean he just built a small transformer? What about the frequency he states?

[ct92404]

Well, he probably is getting a high frequency output, but it would be very inefficient. With a winding that small, the resonant frequency would just be too high. I tried to build a minature coil once, and I just couldn't get it to work. I was never able to tune it.

[swx2007]

Why don't you try using a larger capacitor on the secondary instead of the toroid? E.g. you could mount the coil inside a metal container and use that as capacitor or something. How about winding several layers on the secondary?

[newtonianbarf]

You can increase the inductance in smaller windings by using thinner guaged wire. Its only resonating at arond 1mhz tho.

[MrTard]

I wanna put that in my eye

[windowlicker1]

lol this is hilarious considering some of the large scale ones i've seen. looks like a fun little project

[mdog20201]

nice dude our a fucking guenus compared to me as you can tell from this spelling of mine and im 14

[swx2007]

lol...great self-irony

[ibmike150]

hey i made a 4 foot tesla coil but im having toruble getting the bolts to shoot out the thyroid... how to i connect the primary (inner) coil to the thyroid? plez respond

[swx2007]

You don't really want to shoot sparks from your thyroid...

[Andyman3k]

Yikes that would not be good. You DO on the other had want them to shoot from your TOROID.

[Azonixmaestro2]

The inner coil is the secondary, not the primary. How you connect it depends on how the toroid is made.

[deckoland]

why dosnt it hurt your finger

it burns doesnt it

[Fluffytwo]

Tesla coil voltages are bound by the skin effect and the electricity only penetrates a few molecules into his fingers.  not nerve receptor depths

[ct92404]

Yeah, but you don't want to get hit DIRECTLY by a streamer. The current itself won't shock you because it's high frequency, but the sparks can cause burns. You'll notice in my videos where I draw sparks from my coil, I always have something in my hand.

[Fluffytwo]

true, ive had my share of "fun" explanations at the hospital when a 3kV, 500 millifarad cap discharges into my finger occasionally...note to self, use rubber gloves.

[newtonianbarf]

Actually, It doesn't travel aound you skin so much as the ousides of your nerves and blood vessels as these have much lees resistance.

[TheBypasser]

cute - but could be better.. The coil is definitely not in resonance mode, also you seem not to know what's the toroid for as you set it on without changing the bank capacity nor winding length.. Also change the primary as the present one is once too high and thin.. Once done it, this coil would fire a streamer to approx 2cm I guess..

[madamerotten]

Please don't electrocute yourself. Variacs aren't isolated from the mains, and can therefore be very dangerous.

[gt4awd]

Did you just use some small step down transformers for the input, and did they output DC or AC? Nice video and small coil.

[Andyman3k]

I fed the big xformer with 12 volts ac from an ordinary wall wart transformer for the video, but now I use a variac (which I got for xmas!)

[tenisplayer]

cool, just cool

[jonwedd]

this is great man! One of my college roomates had a pretty big home made Tesla Coil. What a cool idea to make a tiny one!

[BrillianceDeclared]

Dude, that's so cool! Rock on man.