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Tesla coils - my fascinating hobby (how I produce my own indoor lightning)

These pages contain the following topics:

table of content (this page, die deutsche Version gibt es hier)
Safety & disclaimer (please read this first!)
The electrical accident - first aid (deutsch, unbedingt lesen!)
Technological background (what is a TC, elements of a TC, theory & formulas)
Neon xfmr page, covers also MOTs
Spark gap page
Homemade high voltage capacitors for Tesla coils
How to build the perfect secondary
How to build a toroid from scratch
Images, descriptions and other data about my homemade TC's:
   2"-system (my first system, up to 540W)
   4"-system (photographs of the big arcs and sparks: typ. 3¹/₂feet, max. > 4¹/₂feet at 2.6kW input power)
   Vitamini, my 1"-mini twin coil system (180W@10kV, 1"x5"-secondaries, 8" arcs)
AC fly-back, my first solid state TC using a TV fly-back transformer (for small plasma-globes and HV tricks, >6mm)
DC fly-back, my second solid state TC using a TV fly-back transformer (24kV for TC with variable BPS, >17mm)
first tube type TC with Telefunken RS282 (for big plasma-globes and HV tricks)
second tube type TC (GU81M in staccato-mode) heavily under construction! 24.04.99
   The BIG one - my planned 8"-project (pigs, ballast and more) heavily under construction!
GermanTeslaList, the mailing list of the german speaking Tesla coilers (only in german), there is also many
additional information available (like material guides, sources, summary of important threads etc.)
Further projects (twin coils, tube coils etc.), TC-links, statistics, feedback and humor

Natures lightning (a little off-topic :-) but also great, many lightning links)

Please note: I don't mind answering questions and discussing TCs in e-mail.
It is annoying however to receive questions that are already answered on this web site.
If you have a question, please make sure you have fully read the web site before you e-mail.

To find mywebsite again, just type beam.to/stk into your browser, this will guide you
to this page automatically within one second. Much easier to remember than the real URL ;-)
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Copyright 1997-99 by STK. The knowledge is free, the material (i.e. text, images) on my site not. Except some scanned data sheets, buttons and signs, most of the images, schematics and diagrams are selfmade. If you want to use them on your webpage, you have to ask me before. Usually, I will pemit this if you clearly make visible that this image/diagram/schematic was made by me (STK) and if you put a link to my website (beam.to/stk) on each of your pages you place my material on.