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| High Voltage & Tesla Coils |
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•• Big Solid State Tesla Coil, mk I (aka: SSTCmkI)- Work in Progress
- Handley's work into the realm of coil winding and oscillation circuitry to form a high-frequency solid-state tesla coil...
Utilizing a main unit with all the circuitry comfortably shielded from the RF energy given off from the running coil and a "dead-man's" switch on a lanyard even further from the device, this SSTC is quite impressive. All of the internals in the main unit are modular, so it is both easy to debug as well as upgrade in the future for other uses, such as adding audio modulation.
- Currently, this unit still has the habit of obliterating the mosfets on the half-bridge board (though it's impressive when they blow, it is not the desired effect I want when I throw the switch...). The failing of the mosfets is currently due to the lack of a variac to soft-start the circuitry. The current plan is to either redesign the half bridge to slowly start up with each AC cycle via a supporting mosfet setup... or to find a variac, which will be handy for other uses as well.
For now, the unit awaits, intimidating all who pass the workbench...
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•• Didn't Turn Out to be Mini, Audio-Modulated, Solid-State Tesla Coil: mkI
Yes, music from the arc to the open air.
- A work in progress, the Mini, Audio-Modulated, Solid-State Tesla Coil (mkI) will be exactly what it sounds like. It will be constructed exclusively from easy to find items for its support structures and a small order for some specialized solid-state components.
It will be desktop sized and able to produce clear music generated from its output arc to the open air.
>> Currently in the preliminary stages (schematic design, acquiring of parts, etc)
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•• Chadwick's Mini, Solid-State Tesla Coil: mkI
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•• Handley's Actually Mini, Audio-Modulated, Solid-State Tesla Coil: mkII
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•• 300KV Marx Generator
- High voltage, massive arcs, and deafening noise by paralleling up some high-quality HV capacitors and stringing up some resistors. Makes for an impressive display of manliness. Potential for injury: extreme. |
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| Jacob's Ladders |
| •• Our Jacob's Ladders
- The Jacob's Ladder... most have seen them in old sci-fi/horror films, where they are commonly seen scattered about the evil "la-bora-tory." They work on the principal that electricity always looks for the path of least resistance, electric arcs are hot, and heat rises. The arc is started at the bottom of the rods, where the heat of the arc "pulls" it up the ladder to a point where the arc is spread apart, so the arc jumps back to the bottom of the ladder and repeats...
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| Logic Level |
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•• Integrated Circuit Universal Power Supply
- A circuit with a few simple components to make a dual-output power supply (5v & 15v), fit for powering a variety of IC-based circuits, among others. |
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| Power Supplies |
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•• 12V, 5V Switchmode Power Supply
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•• Benchtop Power Supply Unit from an ATX Computer Supply
- Built from a 300W ATX supply
Produces:
- +3.3V @ 20A
- +5V @ 30A
- +12V @ 10A
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•• AC-to-DC Converter
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| Electrolysis |
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•• Medium-Production Electrolysis Tower, mkI
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| Massive Voltage |
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•• Lightning Reclamation
- A project devised as a mass scale device for leeching off the electrical power generated by none other than a lightning storm.
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