My 900 VA Tesla Coil! (Resonant Transformer) Lightning Machine

A description and demonstration of my 900 watt tesla coil! Ask if you have any questions, not for sale. I built this last summer after my freshman year at shawnee mission south (Woot).

Dual neon sign transformer power supply, 12,000v 60ma
Synchronous rotary spark gap
Terry Fritz's NST protection filter design.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tesla Coil
• Lightning
• Machine
• Resonance
• Nikola Tesla
• South
• Arcs
• and your alcoholic dad :)

[foiwater]

The peak in the AC stator wave in your motor and the voltage induced in your hall effect sensor if you had one, wouldn't be coincidental as you said, rather they would occur simultaneously. Unless you meant, coincide** ?

[highvoltagefeathers]

@foiwater I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain that for two actions or occurrences to happen simultaneously, it could be said that the two actions or occurrences are coincidental.

[FaustTeufel]

Hmm, can't seem to pronounce the parts needed for assembly?

[highvoltagefeathers]

@FaustTeufel I'm bad on camera, sorry.

[atiseru]

9:00 if you want to see it in action;p yw

[highvoltagefeathers]

@atiseru I'm trying to have this comment restored.

I don't know why it was flagged, If I'd had half a mind to I would have included something like this myself for those not interested in everything else :P

[highvoltagefeathers]

@hardstyle905 Thats why youtube is so handy! You see when you encounter a part you don't want to see, you just click to another spot on the progress bar, and the seeker appears there, and the video continues at that point! Such an elegant process would allow one to skip my explanation alltogether!

You learn something every day!

[highvoltagefeathers]

@akaacmeinc Not trying to save the world. Trying to make lightning in my basement.

[4230020]

suddenly i don't feel so smart.

[TheSkinnzer]

How much did this cost?

[mw2rules1999]

so were do we put the Flux capacitor?!?!?!

[krisofamericas]

cool man nice creation :P

[dougspair]

@highvoltagefeathers Are you grounding the secondary? It could be acting as a capacitor, with all the metal up top.I've always connected the base of the secondary to the bottom of primay. Ignore the negative comments, I know it's hard not to reply in a similar negative way, but your stuff is about the best in Teslacoils.

[dougspair]

@highvoltagefeathers Surprising how many posters here don't know the speed/freq relationship. Tesla is said to have invented 3 phase when thinking/dreaming of hamsters running in the wheel, don't know how it got to be squirrel. All the the auto-motive alternators I've ever seen are 3phase, likely for smoothing the curent pulses, and have a slip-ring rotating field. Others here have replaced the rotary winding with perm magnet, but now you cannot control output. AND, it's still not free energy.