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  1. Oct 3rd, 2008, 03:14 PM #1
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    Tesla Coil

    Anyone around here ever built one? I'm currently gathering the materials necessary to build my first one. I'm going to be building a simple spark-gab, as I don't want to spend a bunch of money buying IGBT and other high-voltage semiconductors to make a solid state coil... although that'd be pretty awesome.


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    Re: Tesla Coil

    No, always wanted to make one though. Good luck!
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    Re: Tesla Coil

    Wow Id love to build a Tesla coil and a resonator. you know the one that vibrates and can knock a build APPARENTLY.
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    Re: Tesla Coil

    A few friends of mine built one at college last year... Their goal was to make it 'play music' (theres a video going round on youtube I think about one making christmass music or something). It works by making the sparks jump over at the right frequency or something which creates some kind of weird buzzing sound...

    But they had to stop when they blew out all the lights and a computer in the classroom hehe...
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    Re: Tesla Coil

    Quote Originally Posted by NickThissen
    A few friends of mine built one at college last year... Their goal was to make it 'play music' (theres a video going round on youtube I think about one making christmass music or something). It works by making the sparks jump over at the right frequency or something which creates some kind of weird buzzing sound...

    But they had to stop when they blew out all the lights and a computer in the classroom hehe...
    Yeah that's a solid state coil, harder and more expensive to build than a spark gap one. Would be cool to have one though.


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    I learned about Tesla coils in command and conquer....... Really playing as the soviet unions.
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    Re: Tesla Coil

    Quote Originally Posted by DeanMc
    Wow Id love to build a Tesla coil and a resonator. you know the one that vibrates and can knock a build APPARENTLY.
    Yeah...no. They tried that experiment on MythBusters once.... BUSTED. Didn't happen. Considering the heated battle Tesla was in with Edison.... it's possible that the myth was perpetuated by Edison's people.

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    Re: Tesla Coil

    Quote Originally Posted by tg
    Yeah...no. They tried that experiment on MythBusters once.... BUSTED. Didn't happen. Considering the heated battle Tesla was in with Edison.... it's possible that the myth was perpetuated by Edison's people.
    At least they got a huge, steel bridge to vibrate on that episode. I thought that was pretty cool, considering the size of the bridge, and the size of the machine.
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    Re: Tesla Coil

    Pinch me, I'm dreaming.

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