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Building A Tesla Coil
Building A Tesla Coil
Building A Tesla Coil
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Proposal
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The Project
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afterwards.
Support Activities
History On Tesla
Solid State Tesla Coil Demonstrations
Building Of An Output Terminal Or Triode To
Increase Output
Tesla Coil Video (With RealVideo Or Vivo)
Pictures (Digital, Of Course)
Effects Of High Voltage
Study On Much Larger Coils
Four Optionals
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3. Video:
Of course, the video will have to be made after
the actual coil. It will include video footage of
the assembly, tuning and operation of the coil.
There will also be some video showing really
neat arcs and the affects of high voltage on
people (glowing eyes and such).
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Building Report
After I wrote the proposal, I began building the coil. The whole
construction took about two and a half weeks. The construction
process is described below.
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After building the actual coil, there were 4 optional activities that
needed to be completed. The first of these optionals was a small
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Learning Log
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Output Terminal
Output Terminal
Proposal
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round terminal.
Technical Report
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terminal is below.
Learning Log
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Demonstration Video
Proposal
Technical Report
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Learning Log
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The last optional I did was a little paper explaining the practical
(and sometimes not-so-practicle) use of Tesla Coils today. This
included the use of traditional spark gap type coils as well as
solid state coils.
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Learning Log
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And so ends this project. If you haven't already, you can View
The Video of the demonstration. Note that you will need the
Vivo Active Video Player in order to see the video.
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