Spark Gap Tesla Coil parts & old/dodgy things (quick unedited video)
Ғылым және технология
I'm looking for components for my big Spark Gap Tesla Coil (SGTC) and talking about them. Capacitor bank, also called a Multi Mini Capacitor (MMC), Microwave oven transformers (MOTs), primary and secondary winding, current limiting inductors and a top-load. I also show some old, dodgy or interesting things, like my Marx generator, my old DIY x-ray machine and analog x-ray cassettes with amplifying screens, a book from 1886, some soviet CRTs and clocks, Zenit cameras, a mercury blood pressure meter, dodgy wall socket above a bathtub, dodgy DIY fluorescent fixtures, antique thermometers, a cheap Chinese stun gun... At the end of the video I wanted to say that I've lost a spark gap I've made for a tesla coil, but as always, I ran out of memory :).
My old Spark Gap Tesla Coil:
danyk.cz/tesla5_en.html
My DIY x-ray machine and pictures:
danyk.cz/rtg7_en.html
danyk.cz/rtg8_en.html
My vintage thermometers:
danyk.cz/reaumur_en.html
My vintage digital clocks:
danyk.cz/stare_digi_hodiny_en....
You can support me on Patreon:
/ diodegonewild
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"It's quite "Dodgy" It gets better every time!
@PiotrK2022
4 жыл бұрын
Super dodgy in his language mean super, dooper, ultra dangerous, so never, ever, ever, don't touch it/mess with this. xD
@ketelin4285
3 жыл бұрын
@@PiotrK2022 It's quite a good machine , the photo's are excellent , see them on the website . The construction's estetics are quite a mess ... just like my contraptions :(
Homemade x Ray machine...."too dodgy even for me". Priceless. Keep making your videos please. I love them!
That felt like I was watching a post-apocalyptic auction preview.
@Killerspieler0815
4 жыл бұрын
@FlyingShotsman- Yes , the dry version of "Water world" movie
@KeritechElectronics
Жыл бұрын
Vic the trader from Klamath? Possible.
Jesus Christ, that home made capacitor!
@californium-2526
4 жыл бұрын
Bomb fuse.
more dodgy, more dangerous, more interesting😁 also the end is mysterious😂
I hope you will show us design and building process of your new Tesla coil. That would be great series of videos!
Me: Sees 18:34 Well, Diode finally got an big SD card! >Looks at the end of the video Well... That was disappointing...
@Z-Ack
4 жыл бұрын
I think he edits his videos directly from the sd card during the copy n paste finalization process...
@hyperion8008
4 жыл бұрын
Considering it’s a homemade SD card using Soviet components, it’s not bad
@michaelfisher9671
4 жыл бұрын
@@hyperion8008 It's very dodgeeeeeee!
It seems like Diode has an infinite supply of vintage electronic components, did he take those from an abandoned factory or something?
@dan2800
4 жыл бұрын
Soviet and czech electronics xd
@vitcenek8611
4 жыл бұрын
You haven't communism back in time yes? :D You can get these things everywhere. On our re-sell websites like sbazar.cz or bazos.cz I personally collect old Czechoslovak vacuum tube radios and I can get most of them from 20-40 euros and some rare from 50-120 euros. We were from 30's to 70's one of the biggest manofacturers of vacuum tubes, so you can today get them from 0.50E to 10E for normal types and 10-20 for rare types :D
@dan2800
4 жыл бұрын
@@vitcenek8611sem čech btw
@vitcenek8611
4 жыл бұрын
@@dan2800 To jsem si všimnul podle jména, to jsem psal tomu nechápavci :)
I love your collection of random stuff :)
That really reminds my of the cellar of my grandpa! He was really hording everything he could get his fingers on! He was also busy in electronics and built an early radio reciever without external power, just with a germanium (?) diode, capicitor, antenna and earth and maybe coil or some other components like transistor. As a child i was very impressed it worked without electricity - just by the antenna! Seems you need a wife to take care of your home and your safety :-)
I'd love to see a video all about how you started becoming interested in electronics. What you studied, where you grew up, what your parents did etc. Would be fantastic.
When I was a boy in England in the 1950s, shoe shops used to have X-ray machines that showed you your feet inside shoes. That way parents could check that their children’s shoes had enough growing space before buying them. You stood with your shod feet inside the bottom of the X-ray machine and looked into viewing facility at the top to see an X-ray view of your feet in the shoes you wanted to buy. I enjoyed playing on those devices aged 5 or so.
Aahh the old zenit camera, that takes me back. A good insight into your highly skilled background knowledge of electronics.
Thanks for inviting us over 👍😎 I had no idea you were such a mad scientist. Much TechnO ❤ from the 🇺🇸
Great video! I imagine an homemade X-ray machine is quite dodgy! Lol
Fascinating stuff, Danyk. Cheers.
Same here with my mountains ⛰ and mountains 🏔 of electronics gear!!!! Oh but I don’t have a box of 2 Watt Soviet Russian Resistors that are as old as I am 😉!!! My wife keeps telling me that I have way too much stuff, I have to agree with her, especially when I can’t get to my desk or dining room table because it’s buried under a huge pile of boxes full of electronics and components. Everything from Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pie, PC & Laptop parts, capacitors, resistors, transistors, mosfets, transformers, magnetrons, Tesla coils and a bunch of other random stuff. So this video was like a tour of my house 🏠 🤓!!!
Even more capacitors!
Lovely collection of old and dodgy things!
Have looked at your Tesla coils on your website. I look forward to the new and bigger version with the bigger capacitor bank :o) I can't believe your camera still works after being in the same room as that much e-field ....:o)
nice to see some of the things I watched so long ago and I am still here
And i thought i had too much stuff in my collection lol!
@PiratCarribean
4 жыл бұрын
Too many hamsters
@1marcelfilms
4 жыл бұрын
xray the hamster
8:56 is Coleoidea,the German call it "ink fish" -> "Tintenfisch"
Wow. This video Is like your website in nutshell. Great work!
Damn, now I feel old. I have roamed on your site so much, that I recognise things in your stash before you say it :D
I´ve been waiting for videos like this ! (I know some of the projects from your website since many years ago..)
love that accent
You can totally make a museum out of all that!
That's a nice Zenit camera. Used to have one of them :)
if you got drunk in that house id say youd have about 10 good minutes of staggering around before you got killed falling one time.. Death by pokey and sharp doohickeys and whatnots..
už sa teším na dalšiu teslovu cievku :)
This time the sudden ending felt right somehow. I had the feeling we weren't even close to reaching the top of the pile ;-)
That's so freaking cool!
Crazy capasitor man!
i feel your enviroment sir! your a introvert guy they always self study and always curios in anything and situation.
Always makes me laugh how you refer to your pets.
The electric outlet on the shower is truly precious :) ! I am assuming you have disconnected the other end of that Death Trap ...
How did you make the the extension chord device with the lighter piezo spark? That was a magic trick right?
All high voltage and frequency. Also tons of dangerous transformers :P Great colector. Keep the tungsten lamps for triac experiences :P
I collect electromeganical clocks 😀 Nice stuff you have there
awesome nostalgia trip
12:30 yes, we too had a dodgy heater, but not in the bathtub :-))))))
oohhh...sell it to me ! I want that X ray tube ! I have ideas about making some cool demonstration experiments
It's a very nice horde.
I have a particular interest in your x-ray machine. Your extended exposure switch is identical to mine...
@michalcerny2503
4 жыл бұрын
You can find it on his website :) danyk.cz/index_en.html
Thought that dog was somebody elses when i saw it in a video once before., miss kitty is always kicking it with ya though..
im making one of yours sstc very slowly and less dodgy. of course from your very good site
1:58 whats that big board th the large quad flat pack ICs on it behind the microwave transformers?.looks interesting and complicated. What does it do?
@the_danksmith134
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was the control board of an old lcd screen.
So, what's the limit of how many microwave oven transformers you can chain together?
of course!
Hey, it's electrical safety violations galore! Had fun watching though. The X-ray machine is indeed dodgy and I wouldn't dare to plug it in, and the old book is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. I like these Soviet scope CRTs. Nice to see the parts of your wiring - how old are they? Looks '80s to me; I'd be pretty surprised to see circuit breakers resembling DIN rail mounted ones like in the '90s and later. From my Polish experience, fuses or threaded circuit breakers (fuse replacement) were used here; I wonder how Czechoslovakia did it. As for the socket in the bathroom... brrrr! The minimum distance here is 60cm or 1.20m for a shower with no basin. We still use these stupid sockets with the grounding prong, meh. Stupid because a device that doesn't require grounding (no hole in the plug) can't be plugged to the pronged socket, and a device that requires grounding can be plugged anywhere, pronged or not. I like those vintage cables. They were THE real deal, none of that copper coated aluminum rubbish. Thermometers, you've got me there... Things of beauty, joy for ever. I like the Zenit cameras, they were sturdy and reliable, though I never had one. Some very old amplifier? Intriguing. Pity the video was so abruptly ended.
0:51 what is the internal resistance of that homemade capacitor?I dont think its more than a few Ohms.
I are soo crazy boy !!! Bravo !!!
Nice Video 👍
You have gems.
Hello Mr. DGWild. I have the same problem. I allways think that that old part will give me some componentes for projects in future, so i keep all the junk and dismantle it. But what happens in reality is that the things wait there for years, collecting dust. I allways think that I should move on to a new chapter in my life where i realise that a very complex device it is cheap nowadays with greater effiency and almost disposable. I am 42 and after all our future is now. This is a question that will never be solved in my life. I think I will keep collecting and if get to old man then I will put all the garbage in the container to clear the house for my descendents.
Ahoj kde jsi prosím sehnal ty plné krabice starých dobrých teslackych kondíku ?
One dodgy heater in the bathroom, of course :D
You are my favorite person to find in a zombie apocalypse. I think between the two of us we could build anything and fix anything and survive longer than the cockroaches..lol.. I feel so much more normal now with all my junk...in spite of what my wife says..
how did you end up with all these ancient artifacts?
where did you gainedf al your knowledge? and of course nice videos :D
Taky jsem si postavil rentgen, taky takový dodžy bastl, teď mám rozdělaný tři velký, mám v plánu dělat pěkný rentgen snímky, mám pěkný ty rentgen kazety i jeden kousek hodně starýho rentgen papíru se zeleným fosforem a sírou ze sedmdesátých let
Hey, you can rig the Xray machine up and fire it from another room, with the object to be Xrayed already set up before firing. This way you will be safe and can use the machine often.
@DiodeGoneWild
4 жыл бұрын
I did control it from another room, but anyway, I still better not use it regularly.
@n0fluxgiven486
4 жыл бұрын
@@DiodeGoneWild Oh, cool! It would make an amazing video if you could get it running and show how it works!
5-pointed snowflakes! (on the cloth under the christmas light). Of all the things that one should be the first one to be thrown out ;) . Or is that also a soviet version?
Where did you buy that Tesla caps?
Ultimate 1886 science book :)
Many years ago I had a friend who enthusiastically experimented with an old x-ray tube in his doggy-flat (he got it from the junk room of a nearby hospital). Sweet Peter often told us about the fascinating bone structure of his forearms of which he took "pictures". He always assured us to handle it very carefully and to avoid all risks as far as possible (if you knew him, you knew what that ment) After I moved to another city, we lost contact and I never heard from him again. From a certain point, he was also considered to be “missing” for his former circle of acquaintances and no one has heard from him ever again. It is to be feared that he left us with a bright, shining smile ./
Even for me as a german the old book is a bit hard to read, because the font is so different.
@simontay4851
4 жыл бұрын
Ask him to send it to you to read properly. You'd be able to see it better in front of you than on a youtube video.
how can i make Inductor?
OMFG soviet oldstock parts in numbers!!! only on DiodeGoneWild
This time the video was much longer, but the abrupt ending is now obligatory!
Nice video! Very doggy... Xd above a bath thub, not the best place for a socket outlet!
@simontay4851
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely not. Thats very dodgy. Not allowed any sockets at all in bathrooms in the UK.
So many electronics I need them. But some of them are quite Dodgyyy
And if I were you I would make some of those online Merchandising sites with T-shirts and coffee mugs/pencils and so on with your site most recognizable sentence "It's Dodgy" :) just an idea!
@michaelfisher9671
4 жыл бұрын
So many t-shirts I would like - "and here is my fire extinguisher..." with a picture of a beer bottle. "That's niiiiice!". "And here is my cat, of course"
@John_Smith__
4 жыл бұрын
@@michaelfisher9671 Lol, I was looking more to a T-shirt with a burned to the ground Tesla Model 3 with the title ... Dooodgyyy .... :)
Hi can you look at the tesla coil video on my channel. Its output is little bit dissapointing. I wonder if it is because of the homemade capacitor or the primary coil.
0:05 dat curves!
ta tužka v tom x ray :D :D :D
a true genius, Diode. Can we please see your face?
Well, it wouldn't be a Tesla coil without _Tesla_ capacitors, would it?
tu zásuvku v kúpeľni beriem ale tie hodiny to je veľa :DDDDD
ho would say that the 2.6kw power supply that im planning to build it was designed by you and sitting on your bookshelf at 9:51
Rezystor MŁT: mały, ładny, tani.
And the tendency is clearly to end the videos at a random point, leaving us a little bit frustrated ;-)
"The book of nature"
this is why we could never be friends, id never leave your house... haha
👍
Odkud to bereš? Where are you Getting all this stuff.
@hugoslav843
4 жыл бұрын
Přeloženo do angličtiny pro ostatní diváky.
Unfortunately I see many similarities between DGW and me. Like him, I have a certain supply of russian resistors, capacitors and transistors and other vintage parts. Also as a child I built an audio amplifier with push-pull pentodes endstage. Honestly, these videos make me a bit worried about myself... PS I don't have a cat yet
"No stupid LEDs, of course." But, but, diodes....
Tesla could something i want since a child
I like those microwave oven transformers
my home looks quite the same. I can't afford a larger place, and i have all my family living with me. I think this is how they invented shelves.
I like you, we are the same hobbyists
Quick 18minutes video
Thats treasure
You must do xray of the hand
@AlexanderBukh
4 жыл бұрын
send him a hand
@simontay4851
4 жыл бұрын
I broke my finger a few years ago. Its now permanently bent. His xray would've been useful to see the damage.
Dody video end :D
Ah, soviet MLTs... Undestructable resistors!
Your complete house apparently dodgy. xD I just hope at least the building materials of it are not dodgy
I hope this wall socket in the bathroom is 36V for shaving or something...
@DiodeGoneWild
4 жыл бұрын
No, It's 230V, and connected using only 2 wires (live and neutral, the neutral also works as ground).
@valdisblack1541
4 жыл бұрын
@@DiodeGoneWild OMFG