mini Tesla Coil with a tiny rotary spark gap (mamoynas)

This is my mini tesla coil that is driven by a really small rotary spark gap. Here a 555 drives a 2n3055 that drives an ignition coil that charges a homemade capacitor made of aluminium foil inside and outside of a pvc pipe (1 meter long pipe of 15 cm diameter) that the rotary spark gap discharges to the tesla coil's primary that couples to the secondary that steps up the voltage that you see as arcs in the common 100w bulb. Tasos from Hellas

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• tesla
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• rotary
• spark
• gap
• high
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• ignition
• mamoynas

[91Fritzi]

please wiring diagram! :)

[mamoynas]

@91Fritzi watch?v=CnSQQNA0E9g

[jasonspinmaster]

greta work , i love the spark gap . can you please show the schematics or send them to me

[mamoynas]

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[luke036r]

Excuse my ignorance, but why is a rotory spark gap advantageous as opposed to a static one?

[mamoynas]

@luke036r. The static gaps tend to misfire or fire early and are more dificult to finetune.A static gap behaves like a bad zener diode and has variables that costantly change e.g. the dryness of air or the temperature of the gap's electrodes . The rotary on the other hand is a fast on-off switch with the only variable being the turns per min which you adjust easily,giving you total control over charge/discharge timing, or even automaticaly based on circuits that monitor the capacitor's charge.

[futurehorizon24]

@luke036r build it and your ignorance will be gone :)

[MPAPILOS]

YOU ARE  A TESLA MAGICIAN

[mamoynas]

@fernando140887 thanks