slayer Exciter
The build: https://youtu.be/wCKQX6H1vj0 I'm currently enrolled in Physics 2426 and I am fascinated with the material. We recently covered some material on magnetic fields and transformers, so why not take the time to build a tesla coil? But I've got a bit of an issue, I don't have the materials, or any money. I do have two MOTs I could wire in series and maybe get 33Kv - That would be sick - but I don't have much time, and the whole project would be pretty sketch. So I found an alternative: The slayer exciter, I don't need a particularly high power supply to get a little bit of plasma and light up some fluorescent bulbs, and I have everything I need to throw one together real quick. I did a couple of calculations before I started building; However, due to the time constraints I didn't get much down before I started. I knew the the longest piece of 1-1/4 PVC I had was about 27mm and based on the diameter of the wire (0.27 mm), I could get ...