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A DIY Tesla Coil Talk 2 Circuits, Accessories, & Misc Info

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In today's video I am going to go over 2 relatively simple Tesla Coil circuits. The first one is the very common slayer exciter circuit, the second is a modified circuit similar to a ZVS (Zero Voltage Switching/Mazzilli) driver. I'll also go over some of the information I know about the parts and components and how to choose them for your build, DIY accessories you can make, and some basics on how to control the output of your Tesla Coil.
I am not by any means an expert, I know a bit but I can't directly help you with your Tesla Coils, I am an optics/Laser tech. The circuit was taught to me by my friend JP. Below is the original video showing his design.
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@camION4994 11 месяцев назад

Hats off making a Tesla that small and working not an easy feat. Thanks for the extra info on Tesla coils will help in future projects !!! Your awesome !!

@shawncalderon4950 Год назад

I have built a hundred slayer Tesla coils and most of them didn’t work but overtime, I was able improve them. I wish I had this video before I started this hobby!

@JotticunChapter2 Год назад

such a curious and smart innovation, request:part 2 of plasma pen tutorial and stuff you like missed or want to show.

@Zenodilodon Год назад

The plasma pen does have a full tutorial. As I said, it's really a top skills sort of project of which is very difficult for most people to replicate due to it's size. There really isn't any new/updated information on it. You could probably use one of the modified ZVS drivers and a small TC in a plasma pen with good results though.

@shawncalderon4950 Год назад

I will need to watch this video a bunch of times to mine all of its good content! One thing that would be great is to post a schematic. Nothing fancy, just a diagram where the ink isn’t fading:). You show a diagram white board at the end but it’s still a bit difficult to figure out. I say this because there are many noobies (like me) who want to build these Zvs circuits but are having a tough time reading your whiteboard. Maybe I am complaining because I am dyslexic! Now this format is superb, don’t change a thing, this is just a request from a humble subscriber.

@Zenodilodon Год назад

Yeah, sadly some of the markers where more dry than I had expected lol. The ZVS is pretty simple, I can try to find the diagram I made, but it's on a crashed HDD so I have no idea what I can recover on it. It really is quite a simple diagram though, I am certain that if you took a run through and drew a diagram along with me ( with better markers ), that you would come out of the other side with everything you need. There are also dual 555 and 556 interrupter diagrams that you can try to find too! Feel free to contact me through email and I can try to chase up the diagram.

@Hooch737 14 дней назад

Dude, this is brilliant! Thank you! Learning a bunch myself and trying to be a positive influence on a gifted young man. Any suggestions?

@Usnveteranstacker 6 месяцев назад

This is one of my favorite nerds on RU-vid by far. Zen you’re the frickin bomb dude! I’m so happy I found this dude with less than 10k subs. When this dudes channel blows up I can say that I was one of the OGs! I really like your educational videos Zen!I’m shocked you don’t have more subs, but I guarantee that if you keep up the educational videos, mixed with some dope ass experiments of you also learning things, you will have at least 500k subs in the next few years. At LEAST 500k. And you would deserve it. SO DONT STOP TEACHING! I learn more from you than like 99 percent of the other electronic nerds. THANK YOU ❤

@habibbhiri1640 4 месяца назад

Dear Zenodilodon i am a retired and pass my time making various electrinic experiences is it possible to have the circuit diagram's? Best regards/

@ChrisElisonElectronics 10 месяцев назад

Great video, love the tiny coils! 👍

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

You and Mr Teslonian would be unstoppable

@kenword1968 2 месяца назад

your verry good at builds yourself and a whole lot of other amazeing projects you have posted there is a few things that you make confuseing for some beginners.it might be the weed tho.lol..absolutely not ment as an insult so please do not take it as one.i truely learned alot from yourself and jp.thankyou for takeing the time to make and post videos..keep up the great work..2 thumbs up and four and three quarter stars..

@almustafa9949 Месяц назад

What an amazing video

@xPantsMcGeex 11 месяцев назад

I got here from a my chemical romance video from 15 years ago i found in my emails from a friend in 2007. you commented on about emo kids lmao.

@xPantsMcGeex 11 месяцев назад

I stayed for the tesla coil info

@Zenodilodon 11 месяцев назад

@@xPantsMcGeex Hahahahahaha That's hilarious!

@shawncalderon4950 Год назад

Such a clean build!

@ayahsadam9817 5 месяцев назад

Nice sharing

@NerdlabsSci Год назад

Nice and informative video! Well done!

@Zenodilodon Год назад

Thanks! I hope to see you make some of these too!

@johnmirajkar 3 месяца назад

Great sir 👍

@sklzlm 5 месяцев назад

No way! How the F did you make that tiny TC? You must have a delicate touch along with some patience...

@ayahsadam9817 4 месяца назад

Thank for sharing

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

You are so good man. Is there a link to a clear page schematic ?

10 месяцев назад

Very nice video again, I enjoy all of them. I don't get why you would need the p-Type Mosfet in your quenching circuit. Can't you just leave the 22k in place and just short the gate/base to ground with the n-fet? If the gate is grounded, there is just a tiny current wasted through the 22k from vcc to gnd, but it should work in my opinion. Not sure if it makes a difference in high frequency though.

@Zenodilodon 10 месяцев назад

My initial thought was along the same lines. I tried to just ground out the slayer exciter's transistor base but there was some issue. I don't remember what that issue was though. I went to using the P/N channel Fet combination that I used on the ZVS circuit and that fixed the issue.

@hamu_rozhek_chirokek 4 месяца назад

Can you show me step by step how to connect a Tesla coil with electricity and a tesla coil without electricity 🙏

@penguinclips9551 2 месяца назад

Cool 👍

@elettronicaemotori 5 месяцев назад

HI congratulations for the tutorial. I also recently ventured into tesla coils. I would like to understand the 'Titan' circuit. can you send me electronic circuit? Thank you

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

You are the king

@Sir-Dexter 3 месяца назад

nice

@atifebandit7320 11 месяцев назад

can you do a teardown of a handheld hair removal laser please

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

Connect their bases by a hair thickness wire and have unlimited distance

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

Wow embedded in a marker?!

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

The receiver should be wound in reverse.

@Zenodilodon 5 месяцев назад

I'll have to give that a try!

@alloverflorida5886 9 месяцев назад

Do the winding direction of the primary and secondary have to be same?

@Zenodilodon 9 месяцев назад

They do not need to be wound the same. You can flip the primary connections on the slayer exciters or the gate drive transformers on the ZVS to run the coil as needed regardless of winding directions.

@phonotical Год назад

You need some new pens! I always wondered about having an extendable secondary, like telescopic, or having the primary, which I usually see on only one plane, in different positions, I me a I'm sure by now that the reason it's on the bottom is for best output, but it would still be interesting seeing the effect of one in various positions (he said before you did it!) , or even a secondary coil in a square form, I'm an anarchist at heart The tiny one made me smile 🤣 With the inductors, could you influence, or add to the strength of the magnetic field, by placing a rotating magnet near by? Maybe a crazy question... Do those inductors need to run in opposing directions? Putting on a fan 🤣 you kill me! Could you use one to send and recieve messages from another further away?

@Zenodilodon Год назад

I am strongly thinking about showing up ElectroBOOM's Tesla Coil wand. He never really did complete his and I am wondering why. Looking at his electrostatic wand vs the original JP and I put together I can see that his skills at assembly aren't as solid as mine/JPs. Should I make one?...I think so eventually.

@Zenodilodon Год назад

The inductors kind of need to be at an alike speed regime as everything else. There is some play you can do but they can't be too far off the frequency of the Tesla coil. Separate inductors can be wired however, but a center-tapped common core does need to be wound a certain way. The fan was a great move, esp on a 101F day! I am working on an RX/TX kit using the LM386 audio amp IC, however they don't always link very well unless they identical coils. Even putting a light/object near them changes this and causes issues. Pretty fickle set up but I have had results up to 15 foot away.

@phonotical Год назад

@@Zenodilodon go for it!

@phonotical Год назад

@@Zenodilodon today 15ft, tomorrow the world!

@rrod0589 Год назад

I've watched a lot of these Tesla coil videos and none of them explain it in detail the way you do awesome video thank you! Can you make a step by step by video on how to build a Slayer excite? I'd really appreciate it I'm a subscribe on your RU-vid channel

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

The ZVS circuit. Could you get it to draw less current by choking further ?

@Zenodilodon 5 месяцев назад

for a ZVS you can, the ideal way on these though is to use a PWM based interrupter. You can drop the current very low. I will hopefully discuss that when I get to making my TC magic wand video.

@kdkinen 5 месяцев назад

@@Zenodilodon Of all the builders I've seen you have some of the most unique stuff.

@delta-KaeBee 6 месяцев назад

Dude, ON POINT with those tinyTC's, & the SharpieTC's!! I can honestly say they were BOTH a first for me, in 5+ years of consistent interest & research into Tesla, TC's, and HF devices. WELl done Sir! 🤌 💯 ⚡🌀⚡

@spandandutta2485 6 месяцев назад

The modified zvs one ..... Does the circuit have only one pull up 5k resistor...??

@Zenodilodon 6 месяцев назад

Yup, you only need to start the osculation on one side to get it going.

@spandandutta2485 6 месяцев назад

@@Zenodilodon oo thanks 👍🏼 mate 😀

@rodriguezfranco3839 Год назад

very cool I rencently discovered the push pull sstc works great for low power cw if you kick start it by biasing the gates and once it starts you take out all the gates bias voltage it draws low power and is cool for energy transfer , lighting up fluorecent bulbs etc , but if I try to draw a arc it would kill the oscilation and I would need to kick start it again

@Zenodilodon Год назад

I checked out your channel and you have some good set ups. I would love to see further/more detailed explanations and diagrams for what you make. I think it would also boost the attention your channel got by far.

@sree137918 7 месяцев назад

The push-pull version that I built around a year ago was pretty good , it can do 75kv draws 2a(my power supply maxed out at 2A) at 24v, and the mosfet never died. Also, it was a single mosfet sstc. I am 12yr old now, so I am that good or experienced in drsstc's

@theGraphicAutist 8 месяцев назад

COULDA SWORN THE FAST DIODES NEEDED TO GO FROM ONE GATE TO THE OTHER MOSFETS DRAIN... ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHOKES

@Zenodilodon 8 месяцев назад

ON A ZVS DRIVER THE DIODES ARE CONFIGURED AS YOU MENTIONED. THIS ISN'T A ZVS BUT VERY CLOSE TO THE ZVS CIRCUIT. MY FRIEND SHOWED ME THIS, I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT NAME OF THE CIRCUIT BUT I AM SURE THERE IS ONE. IF I FIND IT I WILL POST THE NAME AS A PINNED COMMENT.

@theGraphicAutist 8 месяцев назад

@@Zenodilodonwow thats interesting i heard theres mazilli zvs and there are other similar, tho i think its still zero voltage switching, but i didn't know that was the difference! thanks ur very bright for ur age... i wish i had gotten into EE b4 the age of 36 lol. I prematurely was thinking ur really breaking it down too much explaining everything cuz i selfishly already knew most of it but here u are explaining something for me! no one does it like this and its actually pretty fricken sweet! keep it up!

@AllLoudNation365 11 месяцев назад

Here from Discord

@phonotical Год назад

I bought one of those tiny ones to mess with and it didn't work, I got another and it still didn't work, turns out the leds were fucked, as soon as I changed them out it worked😑 sat there for too long like an idiot thinking, why doesn't that work Your neon is silvered? Woaw Now I want to make a 330vdc one 👀 Can you prevent corona more effectively using latex as a sort of paint Is it true that they could affect the nervous system in some way, I've heard some people who make these for years on years end up getting tremors

@Zenodilodon Год назад

Yeah bad LEDs would certainly stop a slayer exciter. The silver neons, they are strange... they also have green paint dipped tips on a bunch of them. I think they are for illumination best seen from the top in an even distribution of light, though I am not completely sure.

@phonotical Год назад

@@Zenodilodonfunky

@kdkinen 6 месяцев назад

That little guy must be really high mhz frequency