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Tesla Coils
A description of each of the tesla coils I've built

Spark & Arc Pictures
Sparks & arcs Electrical discharge pictures

EE at Teslathons
Pictures from UK Teslathons and tesla coil exhibitions

How Tesla coils work
Diagrams of how a tesla coil works

Parts of a Tesla Coil
The componants that make up a tesla coil

Other HV stuff
Other High Voltage equipment and things that don't fit anywhere else

Calculation&Formulae
Tesla coil or high voltage related calculations, formulae and tables

Tesla Coil Glossary
A list of 
TLA's & FLA's tesla coil and high voltage terms

Links
A list of Links to other Tesla Coil or high voltage related Sites

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


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