Testing the coil I made with a Tesla coil circuit
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- čas přidán 3. 03. 2024
- Okay, well you come up with a better title! Arcs start at 9:54. So anyway I decided to test that new coil I would and see how well it works, using an old circuit I stated making a long time ago but never finnished making it untill now.
To be honest I'm not happy with how this turned out, it should have been much better. - Věda a technologie
Okay dude these videos are getting great. The editing is fantastic ;) Keep up the good work. I love watching your projects and so grateful there are smaller hobbyists out there like us that get this much enjoyment out of what we do and helping to get others into it.
i love ur passion for tesla coil and electronics,. ppl these days are more interested in APs,. but i love the electrons but they are so difficult to control,.lol
I duuno what an AP is.
the tube one of course XD
A lot of people seem to be voting for that, so that's what I'll do.
I cast a vote for the simple one tesla4
I vote for a vacuum tube Tesla coil!
well it's decided then, gonna do the valve one.
Hi Clem again, I did notice on some of the other circuits have a bit of a snubber network across the " Source & Drain". I was going to suggest a snubber network in place of the variable capacitor but didn't 🙄
Strangely enough, after I did the video I did try a snubber, (I used 3 47 ohms in parallel making a 15 ohm resistor, I had that in series with 2 2.2nf capacitors) yet I'm getting around 200v across the mosfet with the snubber connected there, I tried a few different configurations and killed 2 mosfets in the process. So I need to look into this further.
At 2:00, Pin two is floating. Try a pull down resistor?
Anyhow, good video. Have a great week Clem.
But there IS a pull down resistor connecting pin 2 to ground. Even if I directly short pin 2 to ground it still happens.
@@CoolDudeClem
I apologize, I didn't notice that. That is strange then.
@@CoolDudeClemWhy do you get mad at people trying to help?
@@camelcasee But I'm not mad at anyone.
@@CoolDudeClem But it came across that way, that's the point
The valve (tube) one would be interesting, or maybe that very simple one.
okay then, the valve one it is, then I'll do the simple one.
The schematic says to twist a wire (connected to the line going to pin 3 of the UCC372322) around the antenna leading to pin 2. So this should provide for start-up. The datasheet of the UCC shows that pin 2 connects to the gate of a mosfet on the die, so the input impedance is ultra-high and thus the twisted wire working as a pF capacitor is sufficient to turn it on. Without that twisted wire (why did you not add it?), EM pulses from noisy devices in your vicinity (or probably even the remaining stray capacitance) are also sufficient to trigger it.
I did have the wires twisted when I ran the circuit as a Tesla coil. Maybe you missed that? The strange thing is, there is a pull down resistor connected to pin 2 on both the Tesla coil circuit, and the test circuit I was doing on the bread board. So your guess is as good as mine here.
Hi Clem Perhaps a transmission variable capacitor may help as the veins are further apart and some transmitters use 5kv on their plates (well between 1 to 5kv)
That's a good idea, I'm not sure where I could get one.
I'm not an electrician but ! It runs in the family . My Uncle John was an Electrical Engineer back in the day .
Edison was a Dickhead , his words, because he worked for Edison . He also had a radio talk show Mr. Wizard . He taught you how to build a Radio on the radio .
He told me something important about electricity .
" It's just energy, it does what you ask . "
My question for you is what if you built the coils in a double helix?
I'm not sure if that would work, the way I understand it is that when the bottom of the coil is energized and at the right frequency (either by a primary coil or just applying high frequency AC at the bottom of the coil), not only does it work as a step up transformer, but the voltage keeps building up as it goes further and further up the coil, the more turns, the more voltage.
@@CoolDudeClem Yes ! Pinky ! More power ! Because tomorrow we take over the world with the Golden ratio !