The Nottingham Teslathon Workshop took place on September 6 2003. The idea of this event was to focus on technical investigation and tinkering around with coils, rather than running demos. It went very well. The highlight was possibly Mike and Brian’s mighty magnifier which produced bigger sparks than ever before, thanks to some careful tuning assistance, and the loan of a series compound rotary gap, from Martin Dale. However, there were plenty of other excellent coils doing the sparky thing, mostly due to Phil Parry, Derek Woodroffe, and Paul Benham.

There may possibly be a repeat sometime in February or March. The working title for this event is (probably) now the “Nottingham Gaussfest”, since it’s 1/10,000 the size of a normal Teslathon :-6

32″ Arc from Arian Fretwells Coil	Phil Parrys VTTC heats up the room	Brian and Mikes “Maggie” Tesla Magnifier	Maggie Bites back
Maggies Primary Arcs over, one for the Smokin’ page !!	Cotton Tess doing its cooker ring impression.	Adrian Fretwell’s Coil hits a lump of Wire wool.	My Big Tess giving 2′ streamers
Phil Parrys VTTC collection	Adrian Fretwells Coil	Paul Benhams Coil	Small Car Ignition Powered Tesla Coil
A View of all of “Maggie”	Maggie running with Martin Dales Rotory Gap at 15A	A PC Motherboard is tested for static immunity.	Paul Benhams coil runs with a Rotory and beer glass insulators.
Phill parrys VTTC lights up some assorted glassware.	Adrian and Phill light various tubes from Ikletess via themselves.