Hello, welcome to teslaprojects.tripod.com My name is Mason DiMarco, and I've created this website to keep record of a recent project of mine: a Tesla Coil.
The Tesla Coil is named after famous Serbian inventor: Nikola Tesla , who developed and explored the ideas of alternating currents near the turn of the 20th century.
I followed the following guide on instructables.com for building the coil: Instructables SGTC Guide Note that the following is not a guide to creating a Tesla Coil, but rather a catalog of my progress in building one.
On 10/07/11 the Primary coil tubing was all cut out, with the proper measurements (hopefully) marked on the cylinders.
Just soldering the resistors and placing in the capacitors. It was actually my first time ever getting to use a soldering iron. Pretty fun!
Schematics used for the circuit.
As of October the 14th the primary coil is spun and ready, with taps around each turn so that it can be tuned.