Tesla Coil? Why not!

[toseland]

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.

[zx_volcane]

lol, tesla coil, as you do

something to bring out at dinner parties i guess

[cully]

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

[Magenta Sunset]

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-b...esla-Coil/

personally, I'd rather build a "Jacob's Ladder"

[zx_volcane]

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 ...

[Magenta Sunset]

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

[Paul Baldwin]

Subbed. You can keep the Prince Alberts tho, ta very nuch!

[WiNgNuTz]

Subbed. You can keep the Prince Alberts tho, ta very nuch!

This, 1000 times this tbh!

[zx_volcane]

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

[bashbarnard]

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?

[WiNgNuTz]

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?

[toseland]

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..

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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?

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!

[Dum-Dum]

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?

[toseland]

Red alert yo!