{"id":202,"date":"2014-06-04T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/?p=202"},"modified":"2017-02-20T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:25:18","slug":"tesla-coil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Coil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tesla-coil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tesla-coil-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla coil\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tesla-coil-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Tesla-coil-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve built this mall ZVS-Driven Spark Gap Tesla Coil some years ago. It has got a simple dual spark gap, a MMC (multi mini cap) with a total capacitance of 2,27nF. The secondary coil has got 1065 turns of 0,2mm enamelled copper wire and a diameter of 21mm.<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nThe primary coil is adjustible with a crocodile clamp.<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nThe flyback transformer is powered using the ZVS (zero voltage switching) technique. This driver is also known as the Mazzilli Driver&#8230;.just google it and you&#8217;ll find out, in case you don&#8217;t know what this is about ;). It can push a flyback to its limits&#8230;I&#8217;ve never powered this lil&#8217; thing above 50W though, I don&#8217;t know, maybe soon \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nYou get nice 10cm long streamers from this device when powered off a 3S LiPo battery.<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the device at 22V (6S LiPo Battery):<br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<br style=\u201dclear:both;\u201d \/><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hfxl9heFF-4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve built this mall ZVS-Driven Spark Gap Tesla Coil some years ago. It has got a simple dual spark gap, a MMC (multi mini cap) with a total capacitance of 2,27nF. The secondary coil has got 1065 turns of 0,2mm enamelled copper wire and a diameter of 21mm. The primary coil is adjustible with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/?p=202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tesla Coil<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thinkering.de\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}