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Cambridge Teslathon 2008


Cambridge Teslathon 2008

The Whole Teslathon in a Topload
The Whole Thon in a Topload
Alex and his coil
Alex and his coil
Alex and his coil
Alex's rotary and power supply
Alex and his coil
Alex and his coil apart
Alex and his coil
Alex's power supply and primary caps
Alex and his jacobs ladder
Alex's jacobs ladder
Dereks SSTC
My SSTC with Salt and Strontium
Dereks SSTC
My SSTC with Salt and Strontium
Dereks SSTC
My SSTC with Salt and Strontium
Dereks SSTC
My SSTC with Salt and Strontium
Dereks SSTC
My SSTC with Salt and Strontium
Earl's Coil
Earl and his coils controler
Earl's Coil
Earls coil
Earl's Coil
Earls coils rotary
Earl's Coil
Earls coil
Earl's Coil
Earls coil
Mike Harrisons Gizmos
Mike Harrisons Gizmos
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Mike Harrisons Lifter
Paul Benham
Paul Benham
Paul Benham 13Mhz SSTC
Paul Benham's 13Mhz SSTC
Phillip Strauss's coil
Phillip Strauss's coil
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss Coil
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss Coil
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss Coil
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss Coil
Phillip Strauss
Phillip Strauss Coil
Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine
Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine
Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine
Tim Hunkins Bonetti Static Machine
A Small SSTC
Nick with A Small half-bridge SSTC
A Small SSTC
Robert with A Small half-bridge SSTC
Static Gap Tesla Coil
Static Gap Tesla Coil
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC

Cambridge Teslathon 2007

Cambridge Teslathon 2007

Cambridge Teslathon 2007


Derek Woodroffe CWM
Derek Woodroffe's Cockroft Walton Multiplier
Derek Woodroffe's Cockcroft walton multiplier
A 200mm Spark
DRSSTC
Finn Hammers Musical DRSSTC
Finns Musical DRSSTC
plays to the crowd
Finns Musical DRSSTC
and is played by a small girl
Finns Musical DRSSTC
and is played by a small girl
Finns Musical DRSSTC
To great effect
DRSSTC
a Small DRSSTC arcs to ground
DRSSTC
Small DRSSTC Power arcs
AL & FE
Mark demo's the Fernox reaction more here...
Jamess SGTesla coil
James's Small SG Tesla coil
Jamess truck
Small truck with model pole pig in failure
James's SGTC
James and his SGTC
Mike Harrison's Sparkaphone
Mike Harrison's Sparkaphone
Mike Harrison's Marx
Mike Harrison's Marx
Paul Benhams Teslacoil
Paul Benham pumps power into the roof as usual
Paul Benhams Teslacoil
And some power arcs
Paul Benhams Teslacoil
And some close up arcs
Paul Benhams Teslacoil
And some more close up arcs
Paul Benhams Teslacoil
And some power arcs
Phillip Tesla coil
Phillip's tesla coil setup
Phillip Tesla coil
Phillip's tesla coil arcs to air
Phillips Tesla coil
More arcs to air
Phillips Tesla coil
more from Phillips Tesla coil
Phillips Tesla coil
More streamers from Phillips coil
Sam Tesla coil
Sam's Tesla coil
Sam Tesla coil
Sam's Tesla coil
Sam Tesla coil
The Tesla coil's fan blown spark gaps
Sam Tesla coil
with a fluorescent breakout
Sam NST Jacobs  ladder
Sam's 6kv NST Jacobs ladder
Sam NST Jacobs  ladder
More streamers from Sam's coil
Wimshurst
A wimshurst appeared, unfortunatly no sparks due to the damp conditions.

Cambridge Teslathon 2006

Cambridge 2006

Cambridge 2006


My (Derek Woodroffe)
Switchmode Jacobs ladder


Mike Harrisons
Sparkophone


Mike subtally modifies a HD
Platter


and films a head crash
with high speed video



Mike Harrisons 1Mv
Marx


Philip Strauss's SG
Coil

entertained us


for the day


with some fabulous Arcs


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

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.


Mike's Jacobs ladder-O-phone


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.


The DRSSTC survived the train trip wrapped in Steve's Sleaping Bag.
(Steve denys sleeping with it)


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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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.



My AD-OLTC entertaining the crowd with a rendition of Twinkle Twinkle. (Mental note, must change the tune!!)



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.



Martin tries to determine why the output is poor.

Bob Takes a break..



Paul and Dave, sorry if you haven't brought a coil, you get you picture taken instead.


Bob's Coil , being set up.

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.



About 4' sparks from a "wizards hat" on top of Bob's coil.



My OLTC2



Working, About 2.5-3' arcs to air, sparks to ground still blowing OV trip though.



Mike Harrisons Bipolar Marx, Suffering from damp and sawdust, but still giving 3' arcs.

 

Mike Harrisons cap bank "Interfaces"
with a motherboard.

 

And again..

 



The "Jacobs laddder-o-phone of death"

 

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

Cambridge Teslathon 2003

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Adam Hordens Rather nicely built VTTC



In Action


Arc to Florecent lamp

Art to air, Classic vttc spark about 12" long ..

Bob Golding coil, Showing arcs with no power in , whilst Dave Gamble was tuning his coil

 

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..

Dave Reeves Coil Running and giving nice arcs from various breakouts.

 

Daves Reeves Coil giving some sparks from a pencil

My(Derek Woodroffe) Own Kit , for demonstrations.

Big Tess , giving 2' streamers for the crowd.



Change of topload for 26" Arcs to ground



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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Cambridge Teslathon 2013

Alexes Ignition Coil
Alexes Ignition Coil
Alexes Tesla coils
Tesla 1 kit
Alexes Tesla coils
Ran for a while and died...
Alexes Tesla coils
Ignition Coil
Daves Tesla Coil
Daves Tesla coil control box
Daves Tesla Coil
Daves Tesla coil
Daves Jacobs Ladder
Daves Jacobs Ladder
Daves Tesla Coil
Daves Tesla Coil
Daves Tesla Coil
Daves Tesla Coil
Dereks CWM
Dereks CWM
Dereks Tesla Coils
Dereks V8 tesla engine and tesla coil
Dereks Tesla Coils
Dereks arc of time - Tesla Clock
Dereks Tesla Coils
Dereks arc of time - Tesla Clock
Dereks Tesla Coils
Dereks V8 Tesla Engine Explodes
Dereks Tesla Coils
Spraying the desk and evrything in a 2M radius
Dereks Tesla Coils
It ran on 7 coils - until it blew again.
Dereks Tesla Coils
The Aetheriser entertains
Ian's Tesla coils
Ian's small SG Tesla coil
Ian's Tesla coils
Ian's small SG Tesla coil - sparks
Phil Strauss's Tesla Coil
Phil Strauss's Tesla Coil
Ian's Ignition coil
Ian's Ignition coil
Ian's Ignition coil
Ian's Ignition coil
Ian's wimshurst
Ian's wimshurst
Ian's ignition coil
Ian's ignition coil
Phil Strauss
Phils Tesla coil
Phil Strauss
Phil goes fishing
Phil Strauss
Phil goes fishing
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phils Tesla Coil
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phils Tesla Coil
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Goes fishing again
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss Adds more caps
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs to the roof
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil arcs to anything near by
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Strauss Tesla coil
Phil Strauss tesla coil more arcs
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Phil Tucks tesla coil
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Phil Tucks tesla coil gave a great performance
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
until its rotary motor died
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Gives some great Arcs
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Gives some great Arcs
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Gives some great Arcs
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Gives some great Arcs
Phil Tuck's Tesla coil
Phil Tuck fishing again

Cambridge Teslathon 2014

Thanks to all of the coilers and visitors to this years teslathon and of course a great thank you to the Cambridge museum of technology for hosting us again.

My Coils & Stuff

More Photos from the EMPi

Phil S’s Coil

Phil T’s Coil

Alex’s Coils

Marks Coil

Anders’s Coil and Gessler Tubes

Dave B’s Coil

John’s Coils and Equipment

Steves DRSSTC

Then Steve’s coil opened up a rift in the Aether and we were all sucked in. Back next year.

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Next years event?

Cambridge 2000

Photos my Mark Hales from a CD created by Bob Golding