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Updates from 2007: |
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15kV
Single Pancake Coil Test |
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15kV
Bipolar Pancake Coil Test - 12"+ Discharges |
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From the family
archive of Thomas Stanley Curtis! |
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Negative
Discharges from Primary Coil to Tesla Ball Terminal |
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Thomas
Stanley Curtis Reproduction - Small Oudin Resonator
Solid bakelite slab and simple handmade form. |
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Thomas Stanley Curtis Reproduction - A Classic Oudin Resonator
Produces a 12" discharge. Made with hard woods, marble, silk-covered
wire, bakelite, brass, ... the old-fashioned way! |
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Schematic of Tesla Coil For Producing Electric Phenomena
(Specifically designed for Pancake Coils) |
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Thomas Stanley
Curtis Oudin Coil Reproduction
The most impressive cylindrical- secondary table-top Tesla Coil I
have ever seen! |
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Solid State Low
Voltage Tesla Coil :)
Okay not really. A spark gap Tesla Coil
operating with only a 240V transformer! |
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Phantom
Streamers and Oscillatory Negative Discharges made
with a Tesla Coil using a wax-insulated output terminal |
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4" Pancake
Coil for producing "Phantom Streamers" |
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Electrograph
Showing Negative "Phantom" Streamers:
Faint discharges can be seen at the ends of the sparks extending
outward a distance of several inches |
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Original Kinraide Coil Test - Bipolar Arrangement |
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Original Kinraide Coil Test |
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A dedication to
Thomas Stanley Curtis!
2KW Bipolar Wireless/X-Ray Tesla Coil tests... |
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Quenched
Spark Gap Tests with Oudin Resonator |
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3/4"
Tungsten Dual Quenched Spark Gap
"Stationary-Adjustable" Spark Gap
1.25" Diameter Tungsten Quenched Spark Gap #2
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1.25" Diameter Tungsten Spark Gap!
Quenched Gap mounted to 6" aluminum heat sinks! |
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Bipolar Pancake Coil: Using a Plate Capacitor for an
Adjustable Top Load |
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Eight
Series Adjustable Binary Spark Gap:
From .001" - .254" in .001" increments! |
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The
Tesla High Frequency Coil: Its Construction And Uses (1910)
By: George F. Haller and Elmer Tilling Cunningham
Virtual 12" Feature Tesla Coil
(I
decided to do a 3D rendering of this coil until I get the chance to
actually build it...) |
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Testing a
Prototype 9" Pancake Coil with Rotary Spark Gap: Under Oil |
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Testing a
Prototype 9" Pancake Coil with a Rotary Spark Gap |
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How to wind a
simple form of Pancake Coil. |
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Photos of Pancake
Coil constructions and apparatus... |
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9" Pancake
Coil Test |
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Pancake Coil
efficiency debate: To the Tesla List |
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Tesla Inspired
Induction Coil: 2" hot flames from a Model T Coil ran
directly from 220/240V mains! No electronic ignition here! No circuit
board! No
soldering! No transistors!! |
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Transformer-less
Spark Gap Tesla Coil operated directly from 220/240V
mains! Its possible - and here is proof and movie! |
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Weekend
projects:
"Fitzgerald Pancake Coil": 8 Watt Tesla Coil giving 2 - 4" sparks!
Viracorp Violet Ray, Renulife Model K Violet Ray |
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My
reproduction 1897 Tesla Oscillator has a new home
in Frank's collection! |
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Kilowatt
Pancake Coil stills |
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Homebrew Pancake
Coil for Tesla Coil builders |
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"White Coils":
Pancake Coils for 12"+ discharges |
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15 kV
Pancake Coil tests - round one.
Effluves and ionizations... |
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And sometimes
they just SING! 9" discharges from a
9" Pancake Coil. |
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Gas Flame-like
Discharge Experiments:
Curious effects of a 9" coarse wire Pancake Coil. |
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20V Tests:
Operating a Tesla Coil (with a spark gap!)
at low voltage, less than 200 volts on the output of the
(normally 1000V) high voltage transformer!
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Testing a 3"
Pancake Coil. A Pancake Coil built of modern
materials: PVC, Drywall Seam Tape, Wax Toilet Rings,
Brass Tubing, and a 1.5" Steel Ball Bearing! |
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Electrical Discharge Phenomenon Created With Tesla Coils
(At Normal Atmospheric Pressures)
Chapter 1: Prelude: Photographs 2004 - 2006 |
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Low power Tesla Coil experiments:
Static Discharges from a Pancake Coil:
Electrostatic Charging of Cardboard tube with Tesla Coil |
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Movie: Thomas Burton Kinraide Reproduction:
Extension-Less Point - Limit-less Plane Spark Gap
with 14" Pancake Coil
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Reproduction Kinraide Spark Gap:
"Extension-less Point - Limitless Plane Gap" |
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Kinraide Static Electric Tests...
Partial Static Electricity from a Tesla Coil |
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Kilowatt Kinraide Coil Flames |
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Kinraide-Jackson Brush Discharges |
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Kinraide-Jackson Wispy Discharges |
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Neon
Pancake Discharges |
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Rotary Spark Gap Pancake Coil Discharges |
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Strong-Ovington Arcs Sparks and Flames |
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Strong-Ovington Disk Effluves |
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Strong-Ovington Ladder of Sparks |
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Strong-Ovington Press Photos |
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Strong-Ovington High Resolution Photo |
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New Years Eve - 2007
Fireworks of a different sort. |
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Griffith Park
Tesla Coil and Reproductions:
Just some of the brilliant work of Bill Wysock |
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Complete
Strong-Ovington Demo Apparatus |
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