Without meaning to sound sassy, Brooke, let me assure you that there is nothing "just" about it. While in high school I built quite a large Tesla coil with a 16kv, 60ma neon transformer, a pressurized air-quenched spark gap, a huge variac, and a bank of 50 .15mfd (I think they were .15mfd--that was a long time ago--capacitors. The finished product, in addition to being dangerous as hell to the careless operator could be heard more than a block away and generated enough hash to bring TV and radio reception to a halt in the whole neighborhood.
And that isn't even a big one... So, no, it isn't magic and yes, it is an RF transformer with the primary and secondary in resonance but, believe me, it is not "just" a transformer. Bill On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brooke Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > It turns out that a Tesla coil is not magical, it's just an RF transformer > where the primary and secondary are resonated. I took him some time to find > a mechanical structure (pipe mast insulated by wine bottles with a > capacitive top hat). The high school "Tesla Coils" really are just RF > transformers because they omit the resonance on the secondary. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
