I made two Tesla coils with some friends and a mentor called Reed. It took a couple of months.
A Tesla
coil is a huge transformer which makes small lightning (Gigantic
sparks).
First, the electricity goes into a transformer, which raises the voltage.
Then, the spark gap and the capacitor(s) give the electricity a certain frequency.
Next come the coils. There is the primary coil, and the secondary coil.
The primary coil goes around the secondary coil, with a layer of in between. These to coils are a very very high voltage transformer. On top of the secondary coil there is ether a metal ball, or torus. If it's a ball, as on our coil, there is a stiff little wire on top, which emits the sparks. Otherwise the sparks come out of the torus.
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| the coils |
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| bottle capacitors |
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| the finished coils |
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| the set up finished coils |
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| AMAZING!!! |
THANKS REED!!
