The firstTesla coil I ever made used a Ford model T coil powered by a 6 volt car battery. Worked great! If you run the ignition coil off of 110v ac, you need isolation---I avoided that by using the battery, which would last for months before needibg a recharge.
Brad
"Watch & pray, time hastes away"
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Ignition coil driver
On 12/18/15 4:39 AM, doug wrote:
> Hello; I am looking for some information concerning Ignition coil HV supplies. I am using 120V mains through a light dimmer and wonder if there is something better and more robust than the dimmer? This Ignition coil HV supply will be a dual coil setup using a 25.0uf/370VAC motor run Cap.
>
Not as cheap..
any of the standard capacitor discharge electronic ignitions basically
put 400V pulses into the coil to generate HV.
6000 RPM in a 8 cylinder engine is 200 Hz
typical energy per "pulse" is 100 mJ so 200 Hz is 20 W
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