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Amberley 2004

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Amberley Teslathon 2004


Adrians Fretwells Coil Power arcing to a strike pole.


A long exposure of Adrians coil doing its thinng.

Arcs to at least 42"

Adrians Coil

An exhibit from the Milne collection at Amberley Museum

Amberley Museums VDG chucking foil dishes around.

Colin Heaths collection of SSTC's

Colins SSTC running !!

Colins SSTC Still Running.


Colins SSTC Still working


Bang !!! (note the cracks in the MOSFETS)

Colins collection of dead sillicon for the day.

My Collection of small coils.

My OLTC doing its Twinkle Twinkle effect

All of my Coils at Amberley

My OLTC Power arcing to Twinkle Twinkle.. (Movie 410K)


Mike Harrisons Marx giving a 1MV discharge..

 


Mikes Complete Marx setup.

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 2012

Alexes Ignition Coil
Alexes Ignition Coil
Alexes Teslacoils
Alexes Tesla coils
Alexes Teslacoils
Alexes Auto Tesla coil lights a flourecent lamp
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil MMC and spark gap
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil primary
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil spark gap
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil MMC
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil Blower and DC Power supply
Dave Bullimores Tesla coil
Dave Bullmores Tesla coil DC Power supply
Tesla coil
Tesla coil
Tesla coil
Tesla coil - gun
Tesla coil
Tesla coil
Tesla coil
Tesla coil gun with Gass
Tesla coil
Tesla coil gun
Derek Woodroffes Tesla coils
Derek Woodroffes electronic Tesla coils
Derek Woodroffes Tesla coils
Magnetic levitation
Derek Woodroffes Tesla coils
Strike from Earth wire to Secondary kills Dereks Large DRSSTC while its switched off!
Derek Woodroffes Tesla coils
The Aetheriser does its stuff
Earls VTTC Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Earls VTTC (Vacuum Tube Tesla coil)
Earls VTTC Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Earls VTTC with a spinner
Earls VTTC Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Earls VTTC with a large spinner
Earls VTTC Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Earls VTTC with a scull breakout
Earls VTTC Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil
Earls VTTC with a scull breakout
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Phil Strauss prepared for first light of his new coil
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
and breaks the breakout
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Phll Tuck stands by ready
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Phll Tuck Assists Phil Strauss in setting up his coil
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
First light at 6 FEET!
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
First light at 6 FEET!
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
But his MMC breaks over
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Fixed with a sheet of Acrylic
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Fixed with a sheet of Acrylic
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Fixed with a sheet of Acrylic
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Tuned up to nearly 7 Feet
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Ran superbly
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Even with MMC problems
Phil Strauss Tesla Coil
Not to bad for a first outing
Phil Tuck
Phil Tuck Rotary Sparkgap Tesla Coil
Phil Tuck
Arcs to ground and roof.
Phil Tuck
Arcs
Phil Tuck
Ran very well
Phil Tuck
Untill his safety gap tracked over
Phil Tuck
But fairly easily fixed
Phil Tuck
Performed great
Phil Tuck
For the rest of the day
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Phil Tuck
Some CDs as a breakout
Cambridge teslathon
Visitors Enjoy the show at the Cambridge Teslathon

Cambridge Teslathon 2011


Joan Drsstc Tesla coil
Dereks Joan DRSSTC
Dereks Halo Solid State Tesla coil
Dereks Halo SSTC
DRSSTC
Dereks DRSSTC Noah
The Aetheriser
Dereks Aetheriser - Aetherising
DRSSTC Tesla Coil
Dereks DRSSTC give some Arcs
DRSSTC Tesla Coil
Dereks DRSSTC
The Aetheriser - Erasing a CD
The Aetheriser - Erasing a CD
Earls Magnifier
Earls Tesla Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier Tesla coil
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Philip Strauss
Philip Strauss builds his coil
Philip Strauss
Philip Strauss's power supply
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
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 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
Philip Tuck consults the gods of coiling
Philip Tuck's coil
Safety warning
Philip Tucks tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Earl with Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Strauss's coil
Phil Tucks coil and the farady cage
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's tesla coil
Philip Tuck's kills some caps
Steves DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC

Cambridge Teslathon 2010

New SSTC
My New SSTC - Failed after a earth backlash from a bigger coil

The Smallest DRSSTC
The Smallest DRSSTC in the world (unless you know different)
The Dangers of a Teslathon
When the Tesla Coils are not the only danger - Lights falling from the roof..
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier Running
Earls Magnifier
Really Great
Earls Magnifier
Slight Burning Smell
Earls Magnifier
But Brilliant Arcs
Earls Magnifier
Filled the hall
Earls Magnifier
A great display
Alex's small SG TC
James's small SG TC
James Badini Motor
James's Badini Motor generating enough power for both big coils in the room from a 12V supply :o)
James Badini Motor
The neatness of the wiring is the key to its efficency

Mike Harrisons Marx
Mike Harrison made a breif appearance with his Marx
Nick - DRSSTC
Nicks newly built DRSSTC
Nick - DRSSTC
Nicks newly built Cap Bank
Nick - DRSSTC
Nicks newly built Cap Bank
Nick - DRSSTC
Nicks DRSSTC Running
Nick - DRSSTC
Nicks Cap bank limiting inductor and working coil - Hard disk platten not shown as it was embedded in the lights.
Phils Rotary TC
Phils Coil
Phils Rotary TC
Made great big
Phils Rotary TC
Sparks
Phils Rotary TC
All Weekend
Phils Rotary TC
and was a great performer
Phils Rotary TC
The Banjo Effect
Phils Rotary TC
More Lighting abuse
Phils Rotary TC
and you wonder why they fall of the roof..
Phils Rotary TC
More Banjo
Phils Rotary TC
Power Arcs to a sphere
Phils Rotary TC
Wow - two lights at once !!
Phils Rotary TC
No spiders were hurt in this demonstration
Phils Rotary TC
Until his variac Failed
Phils Rotary TC
But fixed it by using his hand and gold ring as the moving contact :o)
Steves DRSSTC
Steve a new exhibitor at Cambridge
Steves DRSSTC
Brought a demo of wireless energy
Steves DRSSTC
And his DRSSTC
Steves DRSSTC
Which Worked very well
Steves DRSSTC
For most of the weekend
Steves DRSSTC
with a superb
Steves DRSSTC
Finite element coiled topload

Cambridge Teslathon 2009

Alec's SSTC
Alec's SSTC
Alec's SSTC
Gives some great CW discharges
Alec's SSTC
and entertained us all
with a range of music
Alec's SSTC
and sparks from the breakouts


Anders Mikkelsen  SSTC
Anders's Mikkelsen brought his SSTC
from Norway
Anders Mikkelsen  SSTC
which After some
running maintenance
Anders Mikkelsen  SSTC
Gave a great display
Derek Woodroffes Maggot
Derek Woodroffes Maggot


 Derek Woodroffes Maggot
Shows its stuff
Derek Woodroffes Noah
Derek Woodroffes Noah,
Which failed totally
due to being left in a damp
car overnight
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Earls Magnifier
Primary and Secondary


Earls Magnifier
Tertiary
Earls Magnifier
Joined by a feeder
Earls Magnifier
Gave some large sparks
Earls Magnifier
and power arcs


Earls Magnifier
to a spherical earthed target

Cap Bank & Can crusher
 CapBank
Dave Bullimore's Cap Bank & Can crusher

The start of a DRSSTC



With some novel cooling
Karim's DRSSTC
Karim's DRSSTC Gave a nice display
Karim's DRSSTC
Sat on a trailer
Karim's DRSSTC
Until the Variac failed.


Melvins's DRSSTC
Sam and his DRSSTC
Melvins's DRSSTC
Sam's DRSSTC
Melvins's DRSSTC
Arcs to earth
Nick & Robbies SSTC
Nick & Robbies SSTC


Nick & Robbies SSTC
Illuminate some nixie tubes.
Phils Teslacoil
Phils RSG Teslacoil
Phils Teslacoil
Gave a great show after
some tuning by Mike Tucknott
Phils Teslacoil
Sam's Tesla Coil


Sam's Teslacoil
Sam's Tesla coil


Two Special Pictures from this years Cambridge Teslathon



Thanks to the Cambridge Museum of technology for allowing us to use their hall and power.

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.