Congrats!
There is nothing like seeing your first coil come to life! The sound, the
sight, the smell. Amazing. Please be sure to share some pics of the
coil/build and sparks too.
Good work!
~Dan
Kansas City area
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:24 AM, Myfirstteslacoil via Tesla <
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I tested my first tesla coil and the first time I turned it on and
> it worked.
> I can not tell anyone how amazing it was, my teachers were impressed by
> the result.
> As you may know I used the Ricci trafo (9kV-50mA) which did not want to
> work at first, but now it did. It had an open circuit breaker but with the
> capacitors it immediately closed the spark gap. I can confirm that this
> transformer is usable for Tesla Coil building. Also the 940C series from CD
> worked fine for the tesla coil.
>
> It was a really cool result and the noise was astounding. Although
> terrifying it was beautiful. I took lots of safety measures to ensure my
> and others safety. I learned how dangerous these things are and that they
> are not toys.
>
> I want to thank Steve White, Gary Lau, Chris Reeland and all other TCML
> members for helping me out. Without TCML I think it would not have worked.
> So again, thank you! If anyone wants to see the end result (50 cm sparks)
> or the document that was written for school I can provide them.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Yesn
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