As usual an awsome vid. One word of advice from one who knows. Never, ever give up and never forget your roots. This may not make much sense now, but it will when the time is right; see you there.

Awesome job young man! When I was about 7 or 8 years old, early '70s, my brother built a spark gap Tesla Coil. It was about 6' tall, secondary was wrapped on a cardboard carpet tube with 3000 turns, primary was huge but I can't remember the details, home made cap from sheets of glass and tinfoil, and a 15Kv @ 90ma neon sign transformer. It would light neon tubes two rooms away. The only issue I recall is that it kept punching holes in the cap glass. It won several science fairs but no one would come visit us anymore. :/

@timetojit8917

2 жыл бұрын

That would've been wild in the 70s

@CarsonCreatesStuff

Жыл бұрын

holy hell a 15Kv 90ma transformer!!!! I have a hard time finding a 15kv 60ma that thing must have been awesome

@rickreynolds9306

Жыл бұрын

@@CarsonCreatesStuff It was pretty sweet. Light neon bulbs in the next room. Probably 18" or better sparks. And loud as hell! The cap was made from sheets of glass and tinfoil and the spark gap was made from sharpened 1/4" copper rods. That and my brother are what sent me into a career of electronics. lol...

@harms123

Жыл бұрын

3k turns seems a little high

@rickreynolds9306

Жыл бұрын

@@harms123 why is that?

The new intro is AWESOME. btw 19:15 subtitles think thats applause

@alandeng027

4 жыл бұрын

mine say music

Incredibly awesome build. I barely ever see those massive Eimac tubes used in Tesla coils, and I actually built a coil of my own using a 3cx5000a7 tube a few years ago.

I'm impressed! "A Thing of Beauty" Love those arcs.

That was awesome man!

That ending was super awesome!

Nice work!

Great project:) I like your MIT tshirt!

Hey you did a demonstration at my son's School. If you need anything for your projects I do part salvaging as a hobby so I have anything from residential to commercial components I have anything from small Transformers to really big transformers electrolytic capacitors you name it I got it just let me know great video bud.

@TannerTech

6 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Thanks so much! What school did you see my presentation at? It may be cool to get a larger transformer to give my Tesla coil some more power. Thanks again!

@joshfolkerts2347

6 жыл бұрын

Messaged you on gmail

I would leave the bypass capacitor connected between ground and hv supply stops the rf getting back into the hv supply might damage the doubler diode

This Tesla coil is so quiet! very efficient!

brilliant !!

Awesome!

Now you should make a railgun, if you do make one make sure the projectile is accelerated before being electromagnetically accelerated or it will weld into your railgun, you can do this by using and airsoft gun or a paintball gun using low air pressure

Lovely

Good fun. That tube looks like it has some serious hours on it, but it looks like you easily get your $50 worth of RF out of it. Did you knock the magnetic shunts out of the HT transformer?

Hey, just a quick question, could I use magnetron as a vacuum tube? (It s kinda the same thing)?

i like your new intro

My 2010 iMac worked great with my Tesla coil.

@TannerTech

3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Did you destroy the iMac?

Could the vacumtube be replaced by a powerful bjt transistor?

hey Tanner, fantastic build. i have only 1 suggestion right now, going forward stop blowing on very dusty boxes. there is now telling what junk is in that dust.

what store is that called? where you got your capasitors.

Toploads are not necessary for VTTCs unless you need to do some fine tuning.

Thumbs up! : )

What did the Tube cost you? im really keen to build one of these depending on cost, as the shipping may cost allot to get it here to NZ

@JustLovett0

6 жыл бұрын

The Vacuum tube he used was $50 from a local shop

how do you know the frequency, I know that the primary resonant circuit has to run on the same frequency as the secondary, but since there is no capacitor in the secondary circuit, just a coil, how do you calculate the frequency then? Do you just wind some wire for the secondary and some random amount of wire for primary and then test diferent capacitor for diferent frequencies and see which is the best ? Or what?

@WildfoxFabrication

6 жыл бұрын

you use a Tesla coil calculator such as javaTC and that calculates the optimal configuration

@DolezalPetr

6 жыл бұрын

Down to a Science no other way? When I am making circuits, I want to understand them first, using programs is for me not really helpful

@TannerTech

6 жыл бұрын

I built my circuit and used an inductor connected to my oscilloscope to measure the frequency of the electromagnetic feild produced by the Tesla.

@WildfoxFabrication

6 жыл бұрын

javaTC is what I use, and is a surefire way to know the exact frequency.

@goamarty

6 жыл бұрын

Normally you wind the secondary and tune the primary circuit to it's frequency. Often the coarse tuning is done by capacitor selection and the fine tuning by shifting a tap point / feed point on the primary coil.

SSTC maybe some time?

Try using the slayer exciter method where the feedback from the ground of the secondary is fed back to the grid shutting down the primary when the current of the secondary hits peak, hence using the natural resonance of the secondary. The triode easily replaces the NPN of the original slayer design. 5kw Slayer Exciter Tesla coil The cool thing is you can adjust the frequency of the secondary using ferrite rods just like master Tesla did when he pressed the ferrite rods into the coils he said "We have power", and off he went in his electrically powered Pace Arrow. Youre wasting a lot of energy because your armstrong osc is not tuned to the resonant freq of the secondary. Thats the beauty of the Slayer design. All hail the Slayer.

Shouldn't he be pulling dc from the voltage multiplier in stead of ac??

what about the x rays produced?

@ElIsraelJijijiji

Жыл бұрын

There are no x-rays produced, vacuum tech creates x rays at about 20 to 30kV and this is the voltage across the tube

Insulate insulate insulate!

Intro sounds a lot like 'Crossing the Universe' by Esther Garcia, is that where you got it from? Great video, by the way, and congratulations on getting accepted!

@JustLovett0

6 жыл бұрын

Tanner actually made the intro music himself. He's been playing instruments for quite a while, and in a few previous videos of his, he explains some of his processes. I don't think he got the idea from that song specifically, but I see what you mean. The similarities are present.

@TannerTech

6 жыл бұрын

Woah, your right! It has like the same chord progression too! Cool. I have never even heard that song before.

Good night my friend I see that you are like me: fascinated by the physics of high frequencies; I watched this movie I'm sending you and I wanted to know your opinion! If only with the tesla coil, you can do the philadelphia experiment!

I’m intrigued by the notion that the original Tesla tower was built on top of a ground water site. I wonder if there is a way that an insulated ground water would have something to do with the original device

Could you use a really big transistor instead of the vacuum tube?

KZreads subtitles: applause Yeah, 450KHz applause is what silicon based lifeforms hear I guess 🤔

@TannerTech

3 жыл бұрын

I guess the tesla coil has gained sentience. Oh no!

make a xray vacuum tube using that vacu um tube

I know this is old next challenge make the vacumm tube it's self just use a old fridge motor and some glass lol

@daveherd6864

21 күн бұрын

Forgot to say you have transformers to make the spot welder

Two questions: 1: Do you have a fire extinguisher (or four) nearby? 2: How often do you trip breakers? Awesome vid!

i cannot state how relateable 11:17 is while im building my solid state tesla coil now HAHHAHAHA

First of all I am a guy and the first fifth points state that it's his wish to conduct there contests nobody else in the world should worry about it .

Hey Tanner ,I am a big fan of yours and I just want to ask you that when will start any giveaways ?

@dryaldibread2327

6 жыл бұрын

Bhawana Joshi you focking lazy peace of shit. Why dont you raze up youre ass and build something youreself????

@saltycrabbers969

6 жыл бұрын

Bhawana Joshi Its a youtube channel not a handout centre. Why would you even ask for freebies?

Man that was awesome! I thought that Tesla always wound his coils with turns in a multiple of 3.

@sFeral

4 жыл бұрын

I think Tesla inserted that number into actions he believed to be trivial to him, therefore making them more sensical from his perspective. Hence his technical achievements don't count, because no number is ever out of place if you're striving for efficiency.

The streamers are quite small ..... Will be better if they were longer

I am obviously asking Tanner himself not any randon nerd looking at public comments!

@bhawanajoshi8088

6 жыл бұрын

And why would I disapprove my statement .I only asked him for giveaways which has nothing bad in it and then people do not prefer using comment boxes as forums since forums do not support picture and many other things . You replied to my comment asking for giveaways that I don't have any right to ask for it and nobody knows me any shit ! I was asking Tanner and I surely ahve the right to do that and I think that if people earn money through KZread giveaways and other contest are the least they can do to expand their channels.If not been there is no harm in asking them or reminding them!

Эти конденсаторы не пригодные для контура .их даже в фильтры ставить страшно .бери конденсаторы К15у

Have anyone asked your opinion

@dryaldibread2327

6 жыл бұрын

Bhawana Joshi ooooohw roasted

@bhawanajoshi8088

6 жыл бұрын

Well , you don't know anything about giveaway policy.It starts when a KZreadr starts earning from KZread , he starts giveaways of projects to to help his viewers and expand his channel . And kid for your kind information it's not for me it's for every subscriber.And next time you use your brain full of "nothing" to troll or comment on people make sure you use it judiciously.If you still have questions then just Google KZread giveaway schemes and policies .

@bhawanajoshi8088

6 жыл бұрын

You yourself have a channel you should probably know that!

@bhawanajoshi8088

6 жыл бұрын

And you have done some nice editing .I like ur skydiving video.

@bhawanajoshi8088

6 жыл бұрын

This is not a forum !!! This is comment section! Where u can ask your question !

Awesome!