Tesla Coil & Such

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Very new to this all comments welcome

[nigelnobody]

Awesome...I am planning on building a jacob's ladder soon, I would not have thought to incorporate it into my photography

[Oneslowz28]

1 tip. Learn how to resize the image and then learn how to use the Save For Web feature in photoshop.

[urcunina]

Inspired by a DIY article in a 1946 Popular Science Magazine, a friend and I built this Tesla Coil in 1950. It used old radio parts, including 1930's type 10 vacuum tubes. The white lumpy stuff on the coils is paraffin used for insulation and has become deformed over almost 60 years. The primary coil was wound around a Quaker Oats box which partially shows in the photo.

This was capable of throwing a 12" spark and lighting both incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs held close to it. Because of the high frequency involved, it was not dangerous.

It was also capable of jamming all AM radio within a 100 yards or so. We didn't have an FM radio available, so we don't know how it would have been affected

These photos were made 2 years ago. While it still exists, we wouldn't try to fire it up as one shorted turn in the power transformer would cause smoke and fire.

This project made us resolve to become electrical engineers. I did and he became an MD.

canon zr850. Well, it's digital and it's canon