Tony Greer’s Tesla Coils

 

Updated: December 7, 2001

 

(Photo by Tony Greer)

Tony (in background) dodging the arcs!

(Photo by Tony Greer)

Sparks and arcs!

(Photo by Tony Greer)

More sparks and arcs!

(Photo by Tony Greer)

Nice coil, Tony!

Specs for Tony’s coil:

8" by 34" winding on the secondary, PVC form
Multi-dryer duct toroid
11 turn flat spiral primary
C = .0267 uFd (3 Maxwell .08 uFd @ 100 kV in series)
Power supply = three 15 kV/60 mA NSTs
Single static gap with vacuum motor for quenching and cooling
Arc length = 6 foot plus, point to point

The pix were taken with a Canon XL-1 digital video camera @ 30 frames per
second.

 

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