Small tesla coil (1sq ft

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Subject: Small tesla coil (1sq ft
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:07:34 -0500
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From:  Jeff Corr [SMTP:corr-at-enid-dot-com]
Sent:  Friday, June 19, 1998 12:23 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Small tesla coil (1sq ft

Alot of nice ideas there, but in order to keep it small I had to settle for
my small
homemade rolled poly cap...  in order to make it small I had to keep the
voltage
from the trannies as low as possible, a 9kv being the choice.  I'm just
plainly using
a golf ball wrapped with foil for the toiroid, again to keep things small.

>Nice results on your small coil. Are you using a torus top load ?
>As you may be aware secondary discharges up to 4X sec winding length are
>reported. Achievable at optimized quench + field shaping using torus is
2-3X.
>I worked with a student at the Calif State Science Fair in 1990 to achieve
2.5X
>Sec height sparks from a coil only 10" high. Key to optimum performance was
>submerging the PRI and SEC in mineral oil - radical, sometimes messy - but
it
>worked !
>
>For less noisey dorm demos and messing around with new ideas:
>For your dorm room consider using an alternate DC excitation mode. i.e.
>replace the NST with a 13kV to 17kV flyback from a video monitor of TV set.
>
>Calcs:
>your 9kV ac rms NST = ~13kV pk
>your cap rating = 12kV ac rms = ~ 17kV pk (so this is the DC level to shoot
for)
>
>Note that when you use DC the discharge rate will be slower depending on
the
>flyback/diode current supply capability vs Cap size, anywhere from 1 (lg C)
to
>50 (sml C) per sec depending on Cap size (~.1 recommended).
>
>Note also that the Cap value when using DC may be arbitrarily increased for
>longer sparks at the cost of longer charge times assuming the gap can
quench
>the higher peak current. I recommend .1uF to achieve longer length single
>power discharge bangs (I get 9" from my Portable Battery powered (12v.04A)
> 6" Sec with 1.25J -at- 5kVdc & .1 & a vacuum switch (NO noise - great quench)
> - mileage may vary in air, increased voltage should result in much longer
>sparks J=c*v*v/2). Going to higher voltage flybacks from color
monitors/TV's
>allows the use of smaller Cap values and less peak current for the gap to
>quench while dumping up to about 5J for really long single sparks. By the
way
>I've done this by sharing the flyback HV anode lead (alternate path out the
top
> of TV case) with the TV or monitor - nondestructively ! The CRT is just a
big
>glass Cap. I just unplug the filament socket to reduce HV current drain
>(maximize available current for tesla cap charging.
>
>Keep in touch from your dorm -at-  UNofOK or ?
>
>Dale,  Redondo Beach, Calif
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>Date: 6/18/98 6:11 AM
>To: Dale Hall
>From: Tesla List
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>From:  Jeff Corr [SMTP:corr-at-enid-dot-com]
>Sent:  Thursday, June 18, 1998 12:45 AM
>To:  tesla list
>Subject:  small tesla coil (1sq ft) findings
>
>Hello all...   in order to have a tesla coil in my college
>dorm room next year :-)  I had to construct a special one.
>
>It is mounted on a 12"x12" plywood section, the secondary being only
>12" tall.
>
>The reason I post this here is I find it interesting this coil can produce
>12" long sparks, the length of the coil itself.
>
>Just thought that someone else might be interested in duplicating this
>coil as it is small enough to carry anywhere, and still performs verywell.
>
>Here are the specs :
>
>power  level - 9kv, 30ma 270VA
>
>capactitor - .004uf , rated at around 12kv (physical dimensions 8" long, 3"
>in diameter)
>
>primary - helical, 10 turns of #20 solid copper, turns 1/8th inch apart.
>
>secondary 1.5"x12", #32 copper enambled.
>
>Spark gap, single gap, half an inch apart.
>
>No safety gap, no chokes, just neon, primary, secondary, gap, and cap.
>
>Jeff Corr
>2114 Monitor
>Enid, OK 73703
>http://www.harvestcomm-dot-net/personal/corr/
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