Can anybody help me with a coil that I bought at an auction? A corporation called Pillowtex went under a short time back and everything was auctioned off. You may have heard of this company because it effected many people in different states. Around 3500 in the small town of Kannapolis NC where I am now living. Anyways ...strangely enough the auction company found this tesla coil (I guess one of the execs had it in their office (I am not sure) and as soon as I saw it I had to get it. I have researched Tesla coils so many months back but never got serious enough to build one. Well now I have one and I have questions before I try to crank it up. I have nice and clear pictures of it and I can send them to somebody to look over and tell me what I have and how it may work. There are 2 wires that were not connected. One is a ground (pretty sure) I have read to keep your ground seperated from your house so I imagine he had a connection he used when he fired it up. The other seems logical where it goes by length but I dont have an understanding of this whole system so I will wait until someone can help me. Just a brief description without pictures. It has a oil burner transformer (coil ?) Big black box. It has a bottle type coil from a car 12v....(using as a capacitor ?) Inside a clear plexiglass box is a transformer and a circuit board ....this seams to be a 12 dc power supply connected to the auto coil. 2 inch pvc for the coil with a round ball on top. Misc. other parts. If anyone can help...please e-mail me at nvr2fst@carolina.rr.com Thanks a lot
--Previous Message-- : Can anybody help me with a coil that I bought at an auction? A corporation : called Pillowtex went under a short time back and everything was : auctioned off. You may have heard of this company because it effected : many people in different states. Around 3500 in the small town of : Kannapolis NC where I am now living. Anyways ...strangely enough the : auction company found this tesla coil (I guess one of the execs had it : in their office (I am not sure) and as soon as I saw it I had to get it. : I have researched Tesla coils so many months back but never got serious : enough to build one. Well now I have one and I have questions before I : try to crank it up. I have nice and clear pictures of it and I can send : them to somebody to look over and tell me what I have and how it may : work. There are 2 wires that were not connected. One is a ground (pretty : sure) I have read to keep your ground seperated from your house so I : imagine he had a connection he used when he fired it up. The other seems : logical where it goes by length but I dont have an understanding of this : whole system so I will wait until someone can help me. Just a brief : description without pictures. It has a oil burner transformer (coil ?) : Big black box. It has a bottle type coil from a car 12v....(using as a : capacitor ?) Inside a clear plexiglass box is a transformer and a : circuit board ....this seams to be a 12 dc power supply connected to the : auto coil. 2 inch pvc for the coil with a round ball on top. Misc. other : parts. If anyone can help...please e-mail me at nvr2fst@carolina.rr.com : Thanks a lot :
Joe,
I'll work with you off-line to help you get this system running, since it will take significant amount of discussion and answering questions that are specific to your system. I've contacted you directly to begin the dialog.