The Turn Of The Century
Electrotherapy Museum
Forgotten Tesla Technologies
2009
 
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Updates from 2009

   



A Series Of High Resolution Electrographs recreating Tesla's Phantom Streams
 
Experimental Pancake Coil for producing Brush Discharges
4" Induction Apparatus Powering A Tesla Coil
4" Capacity Induction Apparatus
A Simple Design For a 4 - 6" Induction Coil
A New Design Of Compact Induction Coil
A New Design Of Induction Coil
Making Spiderweb, Honeycomb, and Pancake Radio Coils
Concept For Tesla Ignition System
(based on James Seeley  and Nikola Tesla's work)
A New Design Induction Coil
Radio Inductance-Induction Coil Powered By a Low Voltage Tesla Coil Circuit To Power A High Voltage Tesla Coil
A Compact 1.5KW Tesla Coil (36" tall x 9" diameter total)
24" Discharges
Low Voltage Spark Gap Tesla Coil Operated from 240VAC Directly
8.5 mfd Motor Start Capacitor, Micrometer Spark Gap...
Low Voltage Spark Gap Experiments - Induction Coils Experiments
Tesla Coil powered Tesla Coil Experiments
FIRE!  Awesome testing of my latest invention:  the Super MOT.
Super MOT - Turning scrap microwave transformers into Tesla Coil transformers...
Recent Spark Gaps...
Disassembling an Unpotted Neon Transformer!
Unpotting a Neon Transformer!
Halloween Tesla Coil - Housed in modern Acrylic and Polycarbonate
New Slim and Trim 3-Series Self-Cooled Spark Gaps
New Spark Gaps
A Modern Steam Punk Tesla Coil In Vintage Style
Striations from Crookes Tube
Hardening a vacuum with a Tesla Coil
A coffee table of gadgets to demonstrate for some Ukraine visitors
Continued Pancake Coils for Phantom Streams,
Thanks to Brian Foley!
Tesla / Oudin Coil Tests:  250 T Secondary (quadruple silk covered wire)
4.5" x 9.75" Secondary - 7500V 60mA NST Powered (.006 mfd)
Inside Out Tesla Coil:
Primary Coil on the inside,
Secondary on the outside.
Tesla Impedance Coil
"Tesla Hairpin Circuit"
Operation Photos of Point - Plane Rectifier Pancake Coil System
YouTube video documenting Phantom Streams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KaT6XrqRL4
Using an Oscilloscope Tube to show Phantom Streams
30W Pancake Tesla Coil Producing Phantom Streams
30W Tesla Coil Tuner
Snappy White Sparks and Hot Ribbon Sparks
4 Kilowatt Pancake Coil Tests

More Quenched Spark Gap Experiments:
3/4" Diameter Tungsten Dual Hydrocarbon Quenched Spark Gap
Plate Gap with paper washers

 
Military Quenched Spark Gap Tests with 9" 500T Pancake Coil

YouTube video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MwQovsPtNo
Flaming Arc Tests with Military Quenched Gap
Unipolar / Single Pole Kinraide Coil, Stained
Unipolar / Single Pole Kinraide Coil
Steam Punk Violet Rays In Action; Inside - Out Violet Ray Coil
(Miniature High Frequency Induction Coil)
Steampunk Violet Ray Resonator:  My interpretation of what a Violet Ray
would have looked like 20 years earlier...
More Steampunk Violet Ray Handles
Steampunk Violet Ray Double Resonator
Making a replacement Violet Ray Coil...
Experimental Tungsten Cam Spark Gap
Micrometer Spark Gap - Accurate to 1 / 10,000" and less!
Tom Vale's Mini Tesla Coil
6" Pancake Tesla Coil Operated from Power Supply
built on an Edison Record;
6" Pancake Tesla Coil Operated by Power Supply housed in 3" x 4" x 5" Cigar Box
(3-4" Sparks, only 16.5 Watts Of Power...?!)
Construction and Experimentation with dual-wire Tesla Secondary Coil
Baby Tesla Coil, 1.9" x 8.875". 
1KW Input Power
Micrometer Spark Gap Inspired By Thomas Burton Kinraide
Interesting Conical Micrometer Spark Gap - Tesla Coil power supply built in a cigar box!
Behary Tesla Powered Static Machine Details

YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gkVyD-L13c

YouTube Electrotherapy Museum Video Part 1 of 3

YouTube Electrotherapy Museum Video Part 2 of 3

YouTube Electrotherapy Museum Video Part 3 of 3
 
YouTube 8 minute 22 second Video:  The Quest For Kinraide
(Details of the earliest surviving Tesla Coils from 1897-1899)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcfK0K6c3qs
Experimental Portable Tesla Apparatus:  Combination d'Arsonval (Diathermy) / Tesla Pancake Coil

YouTube Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyY4WgSYIKI
Featured Tesla Coil:  1650V 10mA coil producing cold sparks
Featured Tesla Coil:  1650V 10mA coil producing hot  sparks
Unpotting And Measuring Master Violet Ray Coils
Reproduction Kinraide Static Machine
Tesla Coil Rectifier, uses Point - Plane electrodes
Protocakes:  Nine Pancake Coils for Studying Electrical Discharges

1. 
Introduction
2.  Construction Photos
3.  Testing Photos / YouTube Video
Time Lapse Photos of Kinraide Coils:  Phantom Streams and Brush Discharges
9" Pancake Coil with 9" Discharges
03 June 2009 - Tesla Coil / d'Arsonval Fireworks or Spark-lers

You Tube video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcAxe7tNbj0
YouTube Video:  12" Discharges from an 8.25" Diameter Pancake Coil
Mesh Fiberglass Tape Reinforced Wax Pancake Coils
Lower Frequency Flat Spiral Pancake Coils.  Initial Testing.
Operating a Tesla Coil from low voltage Sinusoidal Outputs of an A.S. Aloe Diathermy Machine (less than 25 volts)

Non-Inductive Leads to Tesla Pancake Coils;
Tesla Pancake-Coil Powered Static Machine
The Real Use For Brass Bed Balls
Pancake Coil Experiments
Tar and Paraffin Wax insulated Pancake Coil
Completed Bipolar Tesla Pancake Coil - 9kV 120mA, .004 mfd, 4-series Tungsten Spark Gap
9kV 120mA Twin Pancake Tesla Coils, 9" Flat Spiral Pancakes (26 AWG)
Experiments with Lichtenberg Figures On Wax / Black Tar Composition
330T Pancake Coil For Producing Positive Phantom Streams with
a negatively charged ball terminal
6" Pancake Coil for Producing Negative Streamers terminating in Positive Streamers
(Phantom Streams)
High Frequency Induction Coil / Bipolar Pancake Coil
Experimental Adjustable Spark Gap - Tungsten + Hydrocarbon Gas
Low Voltage DC Powered Tesla Coil, using a Relay and an Electromagnet
Turpentine / Poulsen Spark Gap with 500T Pancake Coil
Powered by Microwave Oven Transformer
Turpentine / Poulsen Spark Gap - Details of 2nd Day Tests
Poulsen Arc Hydrocarbon Spark Gap - Copper-Carbon, Turpentine powered
Cip's Second Tesla Coil
Happy New Years 2009:
Twelve Foot Long Carbide Cannon
A Hint of 2009
Tesla Coil Powered By A Contactor / Relay
Hydrogen / Hydrocarbon Spark Gap
Cip's First Tesla Coil
Poulsen / Duddell Singing Arc Powered Tesla Coil - Initial Experiments

The Creation Of A Tesla Lecture Coil:
1. Universal Tesla High Frequency Lecture Coil
2. Tesla Lecture High Frequency Induction Coil - 6" Spark Capacity
3. Baby Bipolar Tesla Pancake Coils
4. Making a small 4" Pancake Coil, 1000 turn secondary coil...
 
Kinraide Coil Reproduction, with Water-Cooled Copper Plate Spark Gap
Kinraide Coil Reproduction, Varnished, with movie.