After working on this for my university project I was able to get my SSTC to produce this. I was using 60 VDC and my circuit is somewhat similar to Kaizer II.
With the grounded rod the streams went to approximately 6/7cm. Is that what you’d expect for 60 VDC with a full H bridge?
I finally tested my arsgtc for the first time! I have some improvements to make to the rotary spark gap, at the moment the electrodes are getting burned away too quick for runs longer than a minute. I want to try using larger bolts with acorn nuts for electrodes, and the angle grinder has some wobble that limits how close I can get the electrodes. I also think the dual MOT supply with the voltage doubler isn’t really cutting it, I’m considering going with a quad mot supply.
Hi ! So, a friend of a friend asked me for help about a project to make a tesla coil.
He'd use it to make electric arcs as he wears a chain mail (like in the picture) for his fire shows.
The problem is that i have absolutely no idea on how to create one and even how that shit works. Im a residential electrician, im just a stupid blue collar dude that everyone glorifies.
Anyway, any idea on how to make one ?? And do something that the dude doesnt die if he stands on it. Please.
Thank you all !
This is a variation of Mirko Pavleski’s single MOSFET Tesla coil. The main difference is mine has no cylinder top load, using a copper solder iron tip over a screw, and I’m using two 3k resistors in parallel to pot. In his video he had made an interrupter and I was wondering what would be the best way to have this play square waves if it’s possible as is or what modifications would I need to do.
Hello, so I have followed Kaizer SSTC full H bridge pretty much to except for not using diodes on the DC bus and I’m using 60VDC instead of AC supply.
I was able to switch on the Tesla coil today but my sparks were roughly 1cm. I do have wires everywhere (spaghetti wiring), I plan to clean it up and make them much shorter but I wanted to see if my circuit works (since it is not a one for one of the Kaizer design).
Could these long wires be causing the short sparks? Also I use a Pi Pico as the interrupter and my waveform at the end of the secondary side GDT is not exactly perfect squared which could also be a cause. Is there a way to protect the antenna because I feel maybe it is picking up too much noise.
Additionally for the capacitor tank I am only using 1 of the 0.68uF capacitors? Should I use 2?