Glossary of Tesla Coiling Terms
- Bangs Per Second, the amount of
times the primary capacitor is discharged through the primary per
second.
- An SSTC whare the primary is tuned
to resonance with a series capacitor
- Effective Series Resistance, The
amount of resistance a Capacitor introduces into a circuit.
- Insulated Gate Bi-polar
Transistor.
- Interrupted SSTC
- Multi Manufactured Capacitor, A
capacitor made from many smaller Manufactured (off the shelf)
capacitors.
- Metal Oxide Silicon Field Effect
Transistor
- Microwave Oven
Transformer
- Neon Sign Transformer
- Oil Burner Ignition Transformer,
used for igniting oil in boilers.
- Off Line Tesla Coil, A tesla coil that works directly from the mains supply
with no step-up transformer.
- Richie Quick Gap, Usually multiple
lengths of copper tubing in series making a multi gapped spark gap.
- Rotary Spark Gap
- Solid State Tesla
Coil
- Three Letter Abbreviation