Tesla Coil Mark II
Measures:
- HV source: two banked OBITs delivering 10 kV, 40 mA
- Capacitor:
- Type: rolled plastic foil
- insulator/dielectricum: 8 layers of plastic foil (PET?)
- measures of plastic foil: 20x100 cm
- measures of alu foil: 10x90 cm
- capacity: 4 nF
- Spark gap:
refractory agile tube with two iron electrodes
- primary coil:
- copper wire (4 mm)
- turns: 5.5
- diam.: 12 cm
- height: 4.5 cm
- secondary coil:
- copper wire (0.3 mm)
- diam.: 4.8 cm
- turns: 660
- inductance: 4 mH
- Terminal: head of a 10 mm timber nail
Performance: ca. 10 cm long streamers and slightly longer arcs.
Pictures:
Cap
Cap unrolled (during repairing after having
burnt it)
Spark gap (disassembled)
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