Derby Teslathon 2003
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Derby Teslathon 2002
A Few Pictures from the Derby Teslathon, the first Teslathon I visited.
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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 |
Martins Coil Gave some good arcs |
All mostly in the right direction |
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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 |
Flamingos |
Figurines |
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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. |
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 |
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 |
Until a secondary Strike hit |
but removing a couple of turns and cleaning |
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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 |
and acheived a 6' (almost direct) strike |
Watched by a number of visitors |
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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 |
Halo with a number of rotating arcs |
The Aetheriser and a rotating breakout |
The Aetheriser and a rotating breakout |
The Aetheriser and a rotating breakout |
The Aetheriser entertains the vistors |
Halo with two breakouts |
Phillip Strauss's spark gap coil |
Ran very well |
Despite having spark gap blower and transformer |
Phill Tuck Brought his rotary spark gap tesla coil |
Which Ran fine |
For most of the day |
Creating a fantastic |
Display of arc's |
Untill.. |
Untill.. |
Untill.. |
A strike carbonised his coil base |
and finally his rotary phase control variac died. |
Phil and Phils col in a copy of the Famous Warnclyffe Photo. |