My parts and design for Arc Lighter Powered Tabletop Tesla Coil:
- Arc Lighter
- 32 Gauge Magnet
wire (Remington, cat.#32SNSP.25 – Solderable Polyurethane w/
Polyamide Overcoat, Diameter 0.0087”, bare wire thickness 0.00795”
so spacing between windings ideally close to 0.00075”)
- winding height for 570 turns equals 4.96”
- Primary Wire
(Gauge and diameter of insulated
wire)
- multicore xx guage wire with 0.x” insulation
- Capacitors –
39000pF, 3kVDC, Polypropylene (Panasonic ECW-HC3F392J)
- 3 in series 1.3nF 9KV capacitor bank
- Diodes for Full Bridge Rectifier 2CL2FL 15KV 100mA 100nS High Voltage Diode ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MVX689B/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 )
- 3mm expanded
PVC sheet
- 3 x 5"x5" squares
- 4 x 1/4" hex machine
screws 3" length
- 12 x 1/4" machine nuts
- 4 x 3/8" long nylon spacers with 1/4" I.D. hole
- Aluminum foil tape (for ground plane and to cover top-load)
- Momentary button (SPST)
- Primary coil – form, windings, height, etc. (3D printable parts with link in parts tab)
- Secondary coil - form, 1.5” PVC (xx” OD) by xx” Height, 570 windings, etc.
- Ground Plane (aluminum foil on bottom of lowest expanded PVC base/support)
- Top-Load (3D
printed toroid covered in aluminum tape)
- I tried many
different dimensions of spherical, torroidal and disc shaped
top-loads
- I prefer the look of torroidal top-loads but other shapes with similar capacitance should also work.
- I should note that I did not take into account the thickness of the aluminum tape in the final dimensions of the top-load and this likely effects the reasonant frequency of the secondary coil!
- Wiring for connecting parts (22 AWG single core wiring)
- I tried many
different dimensions of spherical, torroidal and disc shaped
top-loads
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