Super duper teenie tiny tesla coil

My uber tiny coil. I thought, "I wonder how small I can get a sgtc (spark gap tesla coil) to efficiently work." So I went to work. The coil form is a 4" section of that cardboard clotheshanger stuff (.5" diameter) wrapped with super thin, around 36 awg, magnet wire I got out of one of those small DC motors. The primary is 18 awg insulated wire wrapped 18.9 turns around a piece of garden hose that I slipped over the secondary, which by the way is stood up by a picolo pete base.
I've been looking around and I think so far, its one of the smallest working s.g. tesla coil in the U.S. maybe even the world. Please don't try to beat my record :D jk

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[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

[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.

[Andyman3k]

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

[zker666]

i dare you to lick it

[sctifuzy]

can you make a video on how to make it?

[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

[StopFear]

@Vaiktorg

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

[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.

[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.

[awesomelightning]

@Andyman3k Exactly the reason why people survive lightning strikes.