Pictures from the Nottingham Gaussfest 2015
My Coils and HV Stuff
Phillip S’s Tesla coil
Phillip T’s Tesla coil
And one of Phil’s own videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR1MEOXsKgw
Dave B’s Tesla coil
Gordie’s Tesla coil
Mark’s Tesla Coil
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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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 Phill Parry's coil breaking out on its own (again) |  A rare Photo of PP's coil arcing from the topload. |
|  PP's Maltease Cross tube. (Isn't a green cross a symbol for first aid?) ) |
 Dave Kearley's First Coil, |  Seams to work Well.. |
|  Af's coil doing it famous wire wool trick. |
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|  Adrians Marx, First light Photo.(finished at 02:00 in the morning of the same day) |  A Better Picture of Adrians Marx. |  Derek Woodroffe's Tiny Tess Being Cute. |
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|  DW's OLTC arcs 12" to ground. |
|  DW's Mille Tess giving toothpick sized arcs. |
 Dave Gambols Coil Arcs 6' to earth |
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|  Lighting a Lamp the difficualt way. |
 Duncan Cadd's VDG (now Mark Hales's VDG) |  Close up of the VDG. |  VDG Belt Drive Detail. |  Paul Abrams Ignition coil powered coil and a small Jacobs ladder powered by an obit. |
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 My (Derek Woodroffe) coils ready for demo'ing |
 My IRFP 460 SSTC giving 1' arcs to air. at 10BPS. |
 Same but at a higher break rate. |
 Close up. |
 One of my un-named small SSTC's coils driven from a single irfp460 breaking out from a 20mm ball bearing. |
 Same coil power arcing to a Screwdriver. |
 My OLTC2 giving about 2.5' streamers at 2.5KW!! |
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 Paul Benhams coil, (ex Nick field, Ex Etc.Etc..) |
 A Strike to the roof 5'6" Spot the emergency light. |
 Streamers to air.. |
 Just to prove the strike length !! |
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 a 100mm arc from the output |
 a 150mm arc from the output terminals |
 Richie Burnetts HF CW SSTC |
 An arc to air at 700W |
 The power burns the breakout. |
 A silent bushy discharge. |
 My (Derek Woodroffe) Small DRSSTC |
 My SSTC with a Strontium Nitrate covered breakout |
 My SSTC with a Sodium Cloride covered breakout |
 My Brick OLTC |
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 Melvin Bennetts Compact DRSSTC |
 Not bad sparks for the first time on Full Mains. |
 Martin Dale Tests his new Balast & Pole Pig |
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 Martins Coil Gave some good arcs |
 All mostly in the right direction |
 With Minor damage |
 Easily repaired with the loss of 6 turns to the secondary. |
 And the coil lived again with Excelent 6'-7' arcs |
 All Mostly in the Wrong Direction. |
 A 10 second exposure, note a total lack of arcs to the earthed rod. |
 Mark Hales brought a large selection of gas filled tubes |
 and decorative |
 Flowers |
 Roses |
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 Flamingos |
 Figurines |
 And a couple of Plasma Globes |
 Of different sizes |
 Mike Harrison brought his high speed camera |
 and his "destructotron" Cap bank. |
 First attempt at breaking a pint glass |
 Second attempt |
 The third attempt was successfull. Mike captured this and many other "events" on his high speed camera. Take a look here |
 Philip Strauss brought a SGTC |
 Which was very nicely constructed |
 with every peice polished!! |
 and a pretty good performer too. |
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 Derek Woodroffes Drsstc giveing a 3' streamer to air |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder with help from a couple of sparklers |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder with help from a couple of sparklers |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder using two motherboards as electrodes |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder using two motherboards as electrodes |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder testing a motherboard |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder testing a motherboard |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder testing a motherboard |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder testing a motherboard |
 Derek Woodroffes Jacobs Ladder testing a motherboard |
 Phillip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Phillip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Phillip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Phillip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Phillip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 James Pawson's MARX |
 James Pawson's SSTC |
 James Pawson's SSTC |
 Melvin Bennetts Small DRSSTC |
 Melvin Bennetts Small DRSSTC |
 A test card from Mark Hales's Baird Receiver |
 Paul Benhams Large Tesla Coil |
 Paul Benhams Large Tesla Coil |
 Paul Benhams Large Tesla Coil |
 Philip Strauss's Tesla Coil (variable inductor) |
 Philip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Philip Strauss's Tesla Coil |
 Richie Burnetts SSTC |
 Richie Burnetts SSTC |
 Sams Tesla Coil |
 Visitors and callers at the Gausfest 2007 |
 Derek Woodroffes CWM |
 Derek Woodroffes Small Battery Powered DRSSTC |
 Derek Woodroffe's 200Kv CWM |
 Derek Woodroffes 200Kv CWM with a spinner |
 Derek Woodroffe's 200Kv CWM with a pile of pie dishes |
 Derek Woodroffe's CCPS running a jacobs ladder |
 Derek Woodroffe A bowl of water and 22KV DC |
 Arcs across the surface of the water |
 Karim's Induction Heater |
 With a 50p Coin |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
 Karim's Indiuction Heater - Side View |
 Karim's Cap Bank Explodes some wire |
 Karim's DRSSTC |
 Karim's Cap Bank |
 Karim's DRSSTC Arcs without Breakout |
 Karim's Induction Heater With a Nut and Bolt |
 Induction Heater Smokin... |
 Karim and a lump of Iron fresh from the heater |
 Cap Bank Explodes some more wirer |
 Cap Bank Explodes some more wire |
 A 10p After being launched by Karim's Cap Bank |
 Melvins DRSSTC |
 Melvins DRSSTC |
 Melvins DRSSTC - 3rd Light - WOW |
 Mark Hales Brought some Stuff to sell |
 Mark Hales's Van de Graff |
 Top Comb |
 Bottom Comb and drive |
 Neon Cup |
 Mark Builds a Flyback Driver |
 Mark Builds a Flyback Driver - Which Works.. |
 Neil Thomas Ballasts for his Jacobs Ladder |
 Neil Thomas Power Control and monitoring for his jacobs ladder |
 The Holder for the Electrodes |
 Neil making a couple of last minute changes |
 The Full Jacobs Ladder |
 Arcs at 32A from Mains |
 Arcs at 32A from Mains |
 Pauls Teslacoil Arrives |
 And needs some construction |
 And needs some construction |
 Pauls TC Controller |
 Pauls DC charging and ballast |
 Ready |
 Arcs 5' to a Fixed earth |
 Watched by the visitors |
 More Power Arcing |
 More Power Arcing |
 Arcs via a strip of CD's |
 Which slowly disintegrate |
 Which slowly disintegrate |
 And back to power arcing |
 Phillip Strauss's Bonnetti machine |
 Phillip Strauss's Bonnetti machine |
 Phillip Strauss's Bonnetti machine |
 Gives 20cm Arcs |
 With Paul driving with a long acrylic rod |
 The Charge pickups from Phillips Machine |
 Sam Sainsburys TC |
 With a Flourecent Lamp as a breakout |
 Streamers |
 Derek Woodroffes Noah Coil |
 Derek Woodroffes Noah Coil Spark Close up |
 Derek Woodroffes DRSSTC test board, more details to come..... |
 Derek Woodroffes Noah, a Brick half bridge DRSSTC |
 Earls Magnifier - Primary and Secondary |
 Earls Magnifier - Control Box |
 Earls Magnifier - ExpandableTorroid |
 Earls Magnifier - First Light; No really FIRST light, 4' STREAMERS WOW!!! |
 Earls Magnifier - The Setup |
 Earls Magnifier - The Cap Bank |
 Earls Magnifier - The Cap Bank - Slightly overvoltaged |
 Earls Magnifier - The Cap Bank - Letting the Magic Smoke out. |
 Earls Magnifier - 6.5' Arc to Earth (78") |
 Earls Magnifier - Streamers to Air |
 Earls Magnifier - Streamers to Air |
 Earls Magnifier - Streamers to Air |
 Earls Magnifier - Streamers to Air |
 James Howles - HV Bits and peices |
 James Howles - Tesla Coil from 6Kv 30mA NST |
 James Howles - Jacobs Ladder from 100mA 10Kv NST |
 James Howles - Classic Tc |
 Phillip Strauss's Classic TC |
 Phillip Strauss's Classic TC |
 Phillip Strauss's Classic TC NST, Filters and Control |
 Phillip Strauss's Classic TC, The Filter lets some smoke out |
 Phillip Strauss's Classic TC, The Filter lets more smoke out |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC - Driver |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC - Driver |
 Nick & Roberts SSTC - Driver |
 Melvin's Small DRSSTC |
 Melvin's Small DRSSTC |
 Melvin's Larger DRSSTC |
 Melvin's Larger DRSSTC |
 Melvin's Larger DRSSTC |
 Melvin's Small DRSSTC |
 The Visitors take pictures |
 Some of The Visitors to the GF2009 |
 Dave brought his Small Marx |
 That gave 130Kv arcs |
 Powered by two large CW multipliers from mains |
 Daves Cap bank dinted some cans.. |
 With possibly the most complex control system ever seen in a cap bank |
 If you need a can with a waist see Dave |
 A collection of Derek's Small DRSSTC's and laptop control |
 A collection of Derek's NOAH DRSSTC's with new control system |
 A small 1.5" tall bi-polar coil |
 The inside of the smallest Battery Powered DRSSTC in the world !! |
 Earl at his Magnifier's controls |
 Giving Good sparks as usual |
 More power into the Hall Roof |
 Running really smoothly |
 Running really smoothly |
 Until his rotary became bigger that it was before!! |
 Jasons 1Kw DC charging Tesla Coil |
 Gave a great display |
 Jason at the controls |
 The whole coil and rotary |
 Karim brought a couple of DRSSTC's |
 And perswaded a couple |
 Of the Visitors to play the gituar |
 and keyboard through them |
 Karim also brought a Solid State Jacobs ladder |
 Which ran flawlessley throughout the day |
 Phil Tuck Arrived and started to build his coil |
 assisted by Phil Strauss |
 On a ground plane of chicken wire |
 His coil performed |
 Very Well |
 Both to air |
 and to a breakout |
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 Until a secondary Strike hit |
 but removing a couple of turns and cleaning |
 Put it back into action |
 Untill his rotary controller died |
 from a failed capacitor |
 Which was quickly replaced and he went fishing for sparks |
 and put more power in to the roof |
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 and acheived a 6' (almost direct) strike |
 Watched by a number of visitors |
 The Coils at the Gaussfest |
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Links to Videos (Thanks to Phil Tuck HV Tesla) |
Karims SSTC plays music | Karims SSTC plays music II | |
Extras |
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 Chris Brought a couple of Plasma Balls and some flourecent tubes |
 Dave brough his Marx which intermittantly gave 300mm Arcs |
 Dave also brought his can crusher. |
 Dave's Marx Power supply |
 Dave's Small Marx |
 Dereks Halo SSTC produces 4 breakouts |
 Dereks DRSSTC-LET running on a tray |
 Chris invites in aliens with a pair of fluorescent tubes powered from Halo |
 Dereks Halo with 4 rotating arcs |
 Chris and his fluorescents again with Dereks Halo |
 Dereks Halo SSTC |
 Karim Setus up his dual musical DRSSTC's |
 Karim's mains filter !! |
 Karim's Sets off his MIDI files from his laptop |
 Karim's Producing a great display |
 To music |
 With large 4' Arcs |
 Phill Tuck brought his newly rebuilt Tesla Coil |
 which appeared to have cought something nasty |
 but has a very well built rotary and cap bank |
 Phillip Strauss takes a rest whilst watching Phil Build his coil |
 Which ran very well |
 Which ran with some loud bangs |
 From his new cap bank |
 but large arcs to ground and the roof |
 The cap bank eventually broke down and burnt some insulation |
 Which was fixed with some silicon tubing |
 and Phill was back on line |
 With even more power from a 24mH choke from Phillip |
 Which actually was 17mH (loads more power) |
 Chris lent his fluorescents as a strike pole |
 which wasnt too well earthed |
 A new tesla coil made out of fluorescent green acrylic |
 A really nice looking coil |
 That works too |
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