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By: hipcat

hipcat — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:39:39 +0000

but power is voltage times current. The transformer steps up the voltage considerably, and the current drops by the same amount (keeping power constant, minus some losses here and there that are generally negligible.) I am going to ignore the above advice however.. and in fact build one at home. As soon as I figure out how to negate wife aggro… :(

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:00:00 +0000

@ Jo – It consumes most likely 120v AC, a typical wall socket.

In theory it goes from 120v AC >> then to a step up HV transformer >> Usually around 6000v – 12000v >> then to the spark gap >> One side goes to a HV CAP and then to the primary coil, the other side goes straight to the primary coil. >> Then it travels up the secondary coil with a magnetic field and out the top comes static electricity, anywhere from 200,000v – 1,000,000v depending on the parts you used.

http://home.comcast.net/~pennoyer/Tesla_Coil_Rule…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:00:07 +0000

@ Jo – It consumes most likely 120v AC, a typical wall socket.

http://home.comcast.net/~pennoyer/Tesla_Coil_Rule…

By: jo

jo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:23:00 +0000

Interesting but looks like dangerous for ordinary folks.

How much power this thing consumes?

By: jo

jo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Interesting but looks like dangerous for ordinary folks.

How much power this thing consumes?