 Dereks Joan DRSSTC |
 Dereks Halo SSTC |
 Dereks DRSSTC Noah |
 Dereks Aetheriser - Aetherising |
 Dereks DRSSTC give some Arcs |
 Dereks DRSSTC |
 The Aetheriser - Erasing a CD |
 Earls Tesla Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Philip Strauss builds his coil |
 Philip Strauss's power supply |
 Phil Strauss's tesla coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Strauss's coil |
 Philip Tuck consults the gods of coiling |
 Safety warning |
 Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Earl with Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Phil Tucks coil and the farady cage |
 Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Philip Tuck's tesla coil |
 Philip Tuck's kills some caps |
 Steves DRSSTC |
 Steves DRSSTC |
 Steves DRSSTC |
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Cambridge Teslathon 2010
 My New SSTC - Failed after a earth backlash from a bigger coil |
 The Smallest DRSSTC in the world (unless you know different) |
 When the Tesla Coils are not the only danger - Lights falling from the roof.. |
 Earls Magnifier |
 Earls Magnifier Running |
 Really Great |
 Slight Burning Smell |
 But Brilliant Arcs |
 Filled the hall |
 A great display |
 James's small SG TC |
 James's Badini Motor generating enough power for both big coils in the room from a 12V supply :o) |
 The neatness of the wiring is the key to its efficency |
 Mike Harrison made a breif appearance with his Marx |
 Nicks newly built DRSSTC |
 Nicks newly built Cap Bank |
 Nicks newly built Cap Bank |
 Nicks DRSSTC Running |
 Nicks Cap bank limiting inductor and working coil - Hard disk platten not shown as it was embedded in the lights. |
 Phils Coil |
 Made great big |
 Sparks |
 All Weekend |
 and was a great performer |
 The Banjo Effect |
 More Lighting abuse |
 and you wonder why they fall of the roof.. |
 More Banjo |
 Power Arcs to a sphere |
 Wow - two lights at once !! |
 No spiders were hurt in this demonstration |
 Until his variac Failed |
 But fixed it by using his hand and gold ring as the moving contact :o) |
 Steve a new exhibitor at Cambridge |
 Brought a demo of wireless energy |
 And his DRSSTC |
 Which Worked very well |
 For most of the weekend |
 with a superb |
 Finite element coiled topload |
Cambridge Teslathon 2009
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Thanks to the Cambridge Museum of technology for allowing us to use their hall and power.
Cambridge Teslathon 2008
Cambridge Teslathon 2008
 The Whole Thon in a Topload |
 Alex and his coil |
 Alex's rotary and power supply |
 Alex and his coil apart |
 Alex's power supply and primary caps |
 Alex's jacobs ladder |
 My SSTC with Salt and Strontium |
 My SSTC with Salt and Strontium |
 My SSTC with Salt and Strontium |
 My SSTC with Salt and Strontium |
 My SSTC with Salt and Strontium |
 Earl and his coils controler |
 Earls coil |
 Earls coils rotary |
 Earls coil |
 Earls coil |
 Mike Harrisons Gizmos |
 Mike Harrisons Lifter |
 Mike Harrisons Lifter |
 Mike Harrisons Lifter |
 Paul Benham |
 Paul Benham's 13Mhz SSTC |
 Phillip Strauss's coil |
 Phillip Strauss |
 Phillip Strauss Coil |
 Phillip Strauss Coil |
 Phillip Strauss Coil |
 Phillip Strauss Coil |
 Phillip Strauss Coil |
 Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine |
 Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine |
 Nick with A Small half-bridge SSTC |
 Robert with A Small half-bridge SSTC |
 Static Gap Tesla Coil |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
Cambridge Teslathon 2007
Cambridge Teslathon 2007
 Derek Woodroffe's Cockroft Walton Multiplier |
 A 200mm Spark |
 Finn Hammers Musical DRSSTC |
 plays to the crowd |
 and is played by a small girl |
 and is played by a small girl |
 To great effect |
 a Small DRSSTC arcs to ground |
 Small DRSSTC Power arcs |
 Mark demo's the Fernox reaction more here... |
 James's Small SG Tesla coil |
 Small truck with model pole pig in failure |
 James and his SGTC |
 Mike Harrison's Sparkaphone |
 Mike Harrison's Marx |
 Paul Benham pumps power into the roof as usual |
 And some power arcs |
 And some close up arcs |
 And some more close up arcs |
 And some power arcs |
 Phillip's tesla coil setup |
 Phillip's tesla coil arcs to air |
 More arcs to air |
 more from Phillips Tesla coil |
 More streamers from Phillips coil |
 Sam's Tesla coil |
 Sam's Tesla coil |
 The Tesla coil's fan blown spark gaps |
 with a fluorescent breakout |
 Sam's 6kv NST Jacobs ladder |
 More streamers from Sam's coil |
 A wimshurst appeared, unfortunatly no sparks due to the damp conditions. |
Cambridge Teslathon 2006
Cambridge 2006
 My (Derek Woodroffe) Switchmode Jacobs ladder |
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 and films a head crash with high speed video |
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 Philip Strauss's SG Coil |
 entertained us |
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 A VDG from a visitor |
 A Ignition Coil driven Coil from another Visitor |
I'm very short of Pictures
and information from this years Cambridge.
If anyone has any extra info or photos, please send them to me at
tesa@extremeelectronics.co.uk
Cambridge Teslathon 2005
Cambridge Teslathon
2005
 My (Derek Woodroffe) SSTC2 |
 My SSTC2 with a 1Kw Lamp Plasma globe |
 Me, Waiting for sparks from my OLTCII |
 Hay It Still Works. |
 And Continues to work.. |
 Mark Hales Brought the last of his cubes of sodium. An placed then one by one into a bucket of water. |
 The Sodium was coated in oil and so took a while for the water to get into contact. |
 Contact !! |
 Another Peice, never got a really good contact with the water |
 The last peice was squashed to give a better surface area. |
 Mike Harrison looking deeply into his new Spark-O-phone. |
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 Ans Mike's small Spark-O-phone. (The pan pipes of death?) |
 Paul Benham brought his Big coil |
 And displayed some large streamers |
 Philip Strauss brought his excelent 20" bonetti machine. |
 Which gave 15+cm sparks |
 Steve Connor arrives with his DRSSTC in tow. |
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 And it proceded to give excelent displays of sparks. |
 that were huge for its small size. |
 With no problems at all. |
 Steves DRSSTC with a spinner on top |
 Which It failed to move one inch. Where as My OLTC drove it quite well. See, DRSSTC's can't do Everything as well as OLTC's |
 Streamers avoiding a sphere |
 More Arcs to the spheres. |
 And even more... |
 The Coilers and Visitors |
 And thanks to the Cambridge museum of technology for hosting the event. |
Cambridge Nottingham 2004
Cambridge Teslathon
2004
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better quality) pictures can be obtained by emailing tesla@ extremeelectronics.co.uk(remove the space)
 I started the day badly. My secondary earth wire touched the inside of my secondary. 1/4 hour with emery paper and a sanding wheel, the coil was back working. |
 Ready for Demos. |
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 A demonstration of My CW Multiplier with a bowl of "womble shit" Click for a movie with tin pie dishes |
 I blew an IGBT whilst power arcing to earth, One more defenceles transistor gives it life to the cause. |
 A member of the public (sorry I didn't get your name), brought his (rather nicely built) ignition coil for faulting. |
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Bob Takes a break.. |
 Paul and Dave, sorry if you haven't brought a coil, you get you picture taken instead. |
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Bob, Looking for arcing in his capacitor bank |
Bob, Still looking for arcing in his capacitor bank |
 Must be arcing in here somewhere. |
 Bobs Control Desk, |
 Bobs transformer and charging inductors. |
 Bobs rotary, (high spin speed, with economy wash cycle) |
 Bob at the controls, tuning. |
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Mike Harrisons cap bank "Interfaces"
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And again..
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Mike descovers a new way of cooking apples. A steel whire through the
center and hook it up to the cap bank. Tastes rather metalic though.. |
Cambridge Teslathon 2003
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Adam Hordens Rather nicely built VTTC |
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Art to air, Classic vttc spark about 12" long .. |
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Bob Golding coil, Showing arcs with no power in , whilst Dave Gamble was tuning his coil
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Dave Gambol's coil giving solid 7'+ sparks to an earth rod |
Dave Gambol's coil giving nice (large) Streamers. |
Dave Reeve's new coil having its first day out.. |
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Dave Reeves Coil Running and giving nice arcs from various breakouts.
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Daves Reeves Coil giving some sparks from a pencil |
My(Derek Woodroffe) Own Kit , for demonstrations. |
Big Tess , giving 2' streamers for the crowd. |
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 Maggot , 8" Streamer to Air |
 Ikle Tess, Arcing to an earthed object. (No kids were harmed during this photo) |
 Mike Harrison, Detonates some Gituar wire with his destructatron. |
 Phil Parry Descovers that PVC does conduct. (Mike Tucknott, please add to your page!!) |
 Phil Parry, with a Lit Sodium lamp from his VTTC |
 Phil Holding a screwdriver that is smoking. (no, its not comming from Phil, although he did burn his finger!!) |
 Phil Parry & Mark Hales load a large transformer into into phils car. |
 Photo of Transformer, Could be the start of a scary VTTC phil. |
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Nottingham Gaussfest 2004(September)
Gaussfest 2, 2004
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.jpg) AD-OLTC arc to earth. It acheived 23" long strikes. |
.jpg) "Testing" a motherboard at 16" |
 More "Testing" |
 Rob Greives Coil, Ready... |
 24" Arc to a tube. |
 AD-OLTC 24" to Air. Interrupted. |
 Robs coil again.. |
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