Re: Micro Tesla Coil design

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

Thanks for the reply. Still looking for something much smaller - probably
going to wind one myself.
Sizewise we're talking about a tesla coil that would literally fit in the
palm of your hand and be about  5-6 inches high maximum.
Something like a 2kV, 0.5-1mA output probably.

Dan



 > hi dan,
 >              i have two bug zapper or insectocutor as there called here in
my
 > garage one is 4kv 16ma and one 4kv 8ma the 16ma i have removed the shunts
on
 > and it runs very well they are small units ideal for small coil as thats
 > what im planning to do with them.
 > cheers
 > colin heath
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:19 AM
 > Subject: Re: Micro Tesla Coil design
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "John Richardson by way of Terry Fritz
 > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jprich-at-up-dot-net>
 >  >
 >  > Dan,
 >  >
 >  > I remember seeing a small high voltage power supply on e-bay.  I think
 > that
 >  > in the description it was used for night vision goggles(!?), the output
 > was
 >  > several Kvolts.  I didn't pay attention to the item number because at
the
 >  > time this wasn't posted.
 >  >
 >  > John Richardson
 >  >
 >  > ----- Original Message -----
 >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:48 PM
 >  > Subject: Re: Micro Tesla Coil
 >  >
 >  >  > Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz
 > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 >  > <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
 >  >  >
 >  >  > You might be able to find a transformer from a linear power supply
for
 > a
 >  >  > HeNe laser. I use one probably rated 20 watts with an output of
several
 >  > kV.
 >  >  > It was made by Inglot Electronics and ripped from a Uniphase lab
laser.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Old HeNe lasers in the rectangular metal boxes tend to be made like
 > this,
 >  >  > before encapsulated switching power supplies became the standard.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > KEN
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  >
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