RE: [TCML] tesla coil did not work

["Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Brandon!

Tuna

You have the components that are used in a Tesla coil and you have connected
them into a circuit that should work.

- - - - BUT - - - -

You are missing the most important component -- an understanding of how the
circuit works.

There is nothing wrong with this, it just takes a little bit of work on your
part.

I built a coil that never worked when I was in high-school (16 years old)
and my Dad taught me how to solder when I was six years old so I knew how to
build other people's circuits. I just did not have the knowledge to build
that coil I saw in my mind.

I built my next coil was when I was in my 40's. It worked.

As Brandon said, your best bet is to stop bashing around with what parts you
have and to stop building, step back and start learning. You have spent time
and money gathering parts, save them.

The link to JavaTC is really worth checking out.

Take care and good luck!
Dave



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Garretson
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 5:50 AM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] tesla coil did not work
> 
> Not to mention the fact that running the coil way out of tune can (and
> likely will) cause severe damage to the caps and transformer.
> If you push it too hard with components that you simply guess should
> work, by the time you do get it in tune you would never know because
> half your caps or one leg of your tranny could be fried.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dave Halliday 
> <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As for your comment: "we must not change primary coil and 
> secondary coil"
> >
> > You may have to for it to work. Keep the Secondary coil as 
> is, run those
> > parameters through JavaTC and see what your Primary needs to be.
> >
> > This is not a matter of tossing a couple of coils and 
> capacitors together --
> > a Tesla Coil is a very carefully tuned dynamic system and 
> if one -- just one
> > -- aspect of it is out of tune with everything else, the 
> Tesla Coil will
> > deliver miserable performance.
> >
> > Do not be discouraged, use JavaTC and get it running.
> >
> > Dave
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