Tesla Coil

Here are a bunch of little clips of my coil taken with a digital camera, hence the quality. Next time I take video of my coil I'll have some light on it so some of the coil itself is visible.
The arcs in this video vary from about 12" to 16" in length. 25" arcs were achieved when the coil was setup in a large air conditioned building in the summer of 2008.

Coil Specs:
Primary coil- 50 feet 1/4" copper tubing. 13 turns tapped at turn 8.

Secondary coil- 4" x 30" PVC form
1,125 turns of #24 gauge magnet wire 4.5" x 24"

Tank Cap- 30 saltwater filled soda bottles connected in parallel. (I would like to eventually build an MMC to replace this cap)

Spark Gap- Propeller style synchronous RSG. 240BPS

Transformer(s)- Three 12kv 30ma neon sign transformers in parallel for a total of 1,080 watts of power.

Topload- 4" diameter aluminum ducting wrapped around an 8" form for a total width of 16"

The arc length should be longer, like closer to 4'. But that won't be happening until I can build a better capacitor or really get to tweak everything.

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Science & Technology

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Kool vid ! More Tesla tech in "Wonderful electric system..." by HorizonDelta ;-)