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Ignition Coil POwered Tesla coil
Posted by Ruben Peters on 10/28/2003, 12:32 am Any help or advise on my projectw will be apreciate tullera@optusnet.com.au
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Re: Ignition Coil POwered Tesla coil
Posted by Bert Hickman on 10/31/2003, 8:35 am, in reply to "Ignition Coil POwered Tesla coil" Ruben, I'd recommend making your first Tesla Coil with the ignition coil(s) instead of the microwave oven transformer (MOT) - MOT's are extremely dangerous, and you probably need to get some high voltage experience before trying to use them as a first time project. You can drive an ignition coil with a transistor driver (similar to many flyback driver circuits), off the power mains through an SCR/TRIAC lamp dimmer in series with a 2-4 uF film capacitor. You can also use a set of vibrating contacts (but parallel the contacts with a small 0.1 - 0.5 uF film capacitor) and run the coil from a low voltage DC source similar to way it was done for old induction coils. A high performance (Accell, HEI, or similar) coil can easily deliver 150-200 watts of high voltage for short run times. Some of the following approaches can be used to drive more than one ignition coil at a time if you really want to live dangerously... :^) Following are a few ideas for various types of ignition coil drivers - enjoy: Good luck, and play safely! -- Bert --
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Re: I WANT TO GENERATE 25KV TO 100
Posted by KETAN VAIDYA on 8/19/2008, 7:25 am, in reply to "Re: Ignition Coil POwered Tesla coil"
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Re: I WANT TO GENERATE 25KV TO 100
Posted by Bert Hickman on 8/19/2008, 10:07 am, in reply to "Re: I WANT TO GENERATE 25KV TO 100"
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