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So I have started doing some research into making a tesla coil. I figure I have over 150meters of 24awg enamelled transformer/coil wire at home, and these things look fun...
It will be a ground up build from nothing and I am procuring the parts slowely..
So far I have:
4 foot of PVC drain pipe
30foot of copper brake pipe (primary coil winding)
ample 24awg enamelled transformer wire (new on a roll for the secondary coil)
various nuts and bolts.
wood
Acrylic base
enthusiasm.
death wish.
What I need:
9kV 30mA (or so) power supply (neon sign, was looking at some but they are all from the US - any ideas?)
a lot of 1500v 0.01uF PP film/foil capacitors
a lot of 10M ohm 0.5w resistors
some fabrication and fiddling..
Should be fun... this will be progressing slowly, when I have time to do it, but there will be occasional updates.
Given the choice between Niall and the sheep. I would choose the sheep!
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lol, tesla coil, as you do
something to bring out at dinner parties i guess
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looked at this myself and have backed away as fear of DEATH scares me!
you can get 2KV easy from a microwave transformer you have in the kitchen but dont as its the wrong type of transformer
there is no current limiting on it
unlike the neon transformers
maybe look for High Voltage Anti-Static transformer they have current limiting and produce around 12kv
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It goes, it stops (as reqd). 
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(08-06-2016, 04:04 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-b...esla-Coil/
personally, I'd rather build a "Jacob's Ladder"
Thought Jacobs ladder was an *ahem* 'personal' piercing thing ...
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(08-06-2016, 05:36 PM)zx_volcane Wrote: (08-06-2016, 04:04 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-b...esla-Coil/
personally, I'd rather build a "Jacob's Ladder"
Thought Jacobs ladder was an *ahem* 'personal' piercing thing ...
that's a Prince Albert  
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Subbed. You can keep the Prince Alberts tho, ta very nuch!
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(08-06-2016, 07:23 PM)Paul Baldwin Wrote: Subbed. You can keep the Prince Alberts tho, ta very nuch!
This, 1000 times this tbh! 
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(08-06-2016, 07:19 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: (08-06-2016, 05:36 PM)zx_volcane Wrote: (08-06-2016, 04:04 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-b...esla-Coil/
personally, I'd rather build a "Jacob's Ladder"
Thought Jacobs ladder was an *ahem* 'personal' piercing thing ...
that's a Prince Albert
Hmmm Prince Albert is least of your worries, let google images enlighten you xx
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should not have googled that. thanks tom. curiosity got the better of me.
anyway. no idea what you would use this for?
zapping your enemies?
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(08-06-2016, 07:49 PM)bashbarnard Wrote: should not have googled that. thanks tom. curiosity got the better of me.
anyway. no idea what you would use this for?
zapping your enemies?
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(08-06-2016, 07:41 PM)zx_volcane Wrote: (08-06-2016, 07:19 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: (08-06-2016, 05:36 PM)zx_volcane Wrote: (08-06-2016, 04:04 PM)Magenta Sunset Wrote: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-b...esla-Coil/
personally, I'd rather build a "Jacob's Ladder"
Thought Jacobs ladder was an *ahem* 'personal' piercing thing ...
that's a Prince Albert
Hmmm Prince Albert is least of your worries, let google images enlighten you xx
if you want to see a heroin addict.. google "puff the magic dragon tattoo" NSFW tho..
(08-06-2016, 07:49 PM)bashbarnard Wrote: should not have googled that. thanks tom. curiosity got the better of me.
anyway. no idea what you would use this for?
zapping your enemies?
I intend to have several of them placed strategically around my house so when the allied troops come in can zap them like in red alert!
Given the choice between Niall and the sheep. I would choose the sheep!
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(08-06-2016, 08:06 PM)toseland Wrote: I intend to have several of them placed strategically around my house so when the allied troops come in can zap them like in red alert!
So should you be posting this on the internet?
Surely this is the sort of thing that attracts the black helicopters/men in suits/battalions of balaclava'd riot police, depending of course on your choice of dystopian authoritarian nightmare, to your house?
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Red alert yo!
Given the choice between Niall and the sheep. I would choose the sheep!
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