The capacitors have finally arrived. UPS decided that shipping them from Ontario -> My apartment in BC -> Ontario -> University of Victoria was a good idea. However, they have finally shown up! Aren’t they beautiful? You will doubtless notice the little baggy of resistors. These have a ridiculously high resistance and voltage tolerances. They’re…
The first step in a Tesla coil is the transformer. It is what generates the initial voltage increase from a piddling 120V that is produced by an outlet to the powerful kilo volt range. In the good old days of 10 years ago you could just waltz down to a neon sign shop and purchase…
The top load is what turns the secondary coil into an LC circuit. The idea is that it acts like a capacitor with the ground. Charge builds up on it’s surface until the potential grows so large that a lighting bolt breaks out. The reason people shape it as a torus is to force the…