For a club I started at my high school, everyone agreed on making a tesla coil as a project.
I am starting to struggle realizing how everything has to be tuned, resonant, and I can't just throw a random number of turns on a random size PVC pipe. We are limited in price, so I will say our progress so far of what we have and ask a few questions.
•A piece of 4 inch Diameter 5 foot PVC pipe (actually have 2 of those) and a toilet plounge to hold it up 90 degrees
•A bucket capacitor made out of salt water, beer bottles, oil, I will post the capacitance tomorrow when I bring my capacitance meter
• 4 MOTS, we might have to get another for the ballast, correct? We will be hooking two outlets together for the Power Supply
•A stable spark gap (planning on rotary probably in the future, I have a 3400 RPM BIGG motor that may work)
Our Price is very limited, for we have few sponsors, (just my friend and I's parents and our own money)
So what are some next steps, and is the PVC not the right size? (From another question on the forum the pipe seems to be not the right size, my dads gonna get mad that he wasted his money on that and probably wont buy another
I am sort of confused when working with JavaTC so if anyone could help me with that, it would be great!
Safety wise, I Know 4 mots is enough to KILL YOU so we are taking every safety precaution including being at least 10 feet away when any transformer is plugged in.
What should I use for Primary wire?
Thanks for ANY help, Im just a dumb high school student, and need a bit of help from people who know what they are doing
73's