Re: Making a very small TC using an ign. coil

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

The first Tesla coil I ever built (when I was 13) was
an itty bitty thing wound on a scrap of PVC pipe and
excited with a regular car ignition coil pulsed with a
dimmer switch. It worked fine until I finally packed
it away in the attic when I lost interest in it. The
finished TC made a nice purple brush discharge and
harmless sparks up to 3" or so. I built this virtually
"blind" with no idea how it worked or how to optimize
a coil. With all the info you can get from this list
and the www, you can probably do much better than I
did.

Regards,

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My physics teacher is leaving the school at
> christmas, and I want to build a
> very small TC for him. I want to know if anyone has
> tried this before,
> because I have heard that the voltage spikes etc.
> from a TC are really good
> at killing iggy coils. Also, I need to buy a KV and
> mA meter to measure the
> output of the coil so that I can build my primary
> cap. The coil is a unipart
> coil, but I am considering purchasing a GM HEI coil
> because they are more
> well known by the group and are high quality. Any
> advice (especially KV
> output and mA output of the coil) would be very much
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> 
> 


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