This is our power control unit designed to control power to a few of our larger Tesla Coils.
It was mainly designed for our 12" Coil System, but is capable of driving a much more
powerful coil. All of the components are built into an old Ham radio repeater cabinet.
The main input power variac is rated 520V @ 30A I believe. The controller contains at
least 4 high-current contactors, one small 120V 10A variac for RSG control, a 12V
instrumentation transformer, SCR's, cooling fan, and other miscellaneous stuff. The front
panel was designed to be relatively simple, with a mains power ON keyswitch, 120/240
output voltage switch, on/off indicator lights for main and RSG output, output voltage
and current metering, a hobbs meter to log time on the coil, and of course hand cranks for
the main output variac, and the RSG variac. As of now, the unit easily powers our 10kVA coil
continuously with no problems. Some modification will enable us to run upwards of 15kVA.