Building Spark Gap Tesla Coil pt. 6 - First test 

So try let's make a very dodgy first test of my spark gap tesla cooooiiil in the bathroooom... This man becomes a legend.

6:00 One of the transformers is burning ...let's wait half a minute

The only thing missing is Frankenstein's Monster in the tub. "It's ALIVE!"

DiodeGoneWild: "Is it a good idea to plug it in?" Also DiodeGoneWild: "No, so let's plug it in."

Lol just imagine sitting on the toilet, minding your buisness, and your neighbor decides to test a god damn tesla coil and pops the breaker. Hearing those nasty sparks and then having a blackout would indeed be terrifiying

It's so funny you're telling "something went wrong" in a completely dark room XD

I don’t know what to say apart from, what an amazing amount of knowledge and confidence you have in this subject. Thanks for showing us these amazing experiments. I won’t be attempting to replicate.

06:00 one of the transformer is cooking lets wait for the dinner to be ready.

Cat on vacation -- fishing.

This is so cool.... best series ever.

Probably one of the best step by step series of instructional videos on building a Tesla Coil!

The long awaited video is finally there and it did not disappoint. Sparks, sparks, beautiful sparks!

That was just amazing man, I would like to see this thing operate in larger space! I was exited so much that i kept saying "bloody hell" the whole time :)

*_WOW !_* *_JUST WOW !_* *_MAN ! THAT'S INSANE !_* *_WORDS, WORDS..._* *_I NEED WORDS !_* *_SERIOUSLY THOUGH, THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON RU-vid._* *_EVER !_* *_I AM SERIOUS GUYS !_* *_And I've been a RU-vid subscriber now for over fifteen years_* *_I AM TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY !_* All the work. All the prep. All the pre-prep All the calculations. I'm guessing there are not many people out there that fully appreciate the magnitude of what you have done here. What you have actually achieved here is quite frankly *_INCREDIBLE. FANTASTIC_* *_I really do need more words..._* But I am one of those who do. I mean, I am one of those few who does, *_fully appreciate_* what you have achieved here. I am a patron of just one other RU-vidr. You may have heard of him. *_"Mr Carlson's Lab"_* I have patronised him for just over a year now. (That sounded weird, didn't it ?) Anyway, I now have another RU-vidr to add to that. *_WAY TO GO, DiodeGoneWild_* *_WAY TO GO DUDE !_* >

Was the air full of Ozon gas after your experiments? That will have sanitised your bathroom properly 🤣

This is how I imagine Tesla would be doing his experiments, had he have remained in Serbia

2:17 "And of course now the question is: is it a good idea to plug this in? Of course it's not a good idea, but let's plug it in!" - DiodeGoneWild, April 2020 By the way: the transformer that failed at 6:00 already started burning at 5:05, the cracking noise can be heard for a brief moment.

4:44 He touch a bank of high voltage capacitors, " I hope that the discharging resistors are doing their job"

make a grounded circle a bit above primary, it will catch unwanted sparks and keep your capacitors and mots safe

Absolutely frightening! Excellent series!

Just as many others have, I've seen, read and tinkered with all manners and ideas of different types of Tesla coils, Oudin, Lahkovsky, D'Arsonval, etc.... & I must say, your 6-pack Spark-Gap TC info/build vids pack the PERFECT balance of theory, math & calculation, common sense, simple building, and safety pointers (especially for those just getting into building and theory of operation, and don't just want to see a SINGLE specific build, but trying to understand the adjustable and affecting variables within the many differences of the 'basic' Tesla coil circuit). Very nicely done my friend!! And you cat seems awesome!!! I'm sure you keep her/him nicely paid as your Quality Inspector (in treats and toys & random boxes of course 😉)😸👍

6:02 Something is burning 🔥 30 seconds later : So let's turn it off 😂

Next series: Vacuum tube tesla coil would be nice to see

His neighbor wondering why they see lighting strikes from his window...

That's a wonderful result. Given a little tuning and a bigger space and you will be on the weather report! Good project. Thank you for sharing the design thought process.

you have balls, sir!

This series is the best of this channel (and switching supply series of course)

So satifsying after all this work. It looks great Dan!

Bloody hell that was AWESOME!

Why do I love this channel: 3:45 Summoning the darkest devil Lucifer from the hell 3:53 "That's better" Actually, if you have neighbors, what do they think about you? :D 6:05 Starting to burn the transformer 6:24 "Let's turn it off"

Excellent

Please give us a "MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!" Laugh when this mad scientist experiment is running next time. Just once. I wonder if anyone saw the light coming from your bathroom window & thought someone dropped a toaster in the tub. Were you nervous plugging this in for the first time?

Masakr. Nejlepsi prizvuk. Boze dej dalsi dil. Diky chlape!

Replace the 4th transformer. 8kV is love.

6:23 obviously, I would have had done that ages ago 😆

BLODY HEEEL!!😂😂

I've got the impression Diode can be confined for an eternity and yet never get bored ^^

Just love this ❤️

that's niiiiiiiiiiiiccccccceeeeee :D

5kVA Tesla coil in a small bathroom:"Of course it's not a good idea, but let's plug it in!"THIS is why we watch Diodegonewild 🤣

Bloody hell!

I really like the way you explaining brother 😂 you're made my day and this project was so interesting and deadly , awesome brother please keep it up with much love and respect from india 😊

Worth trying: start a regular washing program on your washing machine and run the coil same time :D

You know you have a good Tesla coil when you need a bigger room to run it in :o)

BBLOODDYY HHEELLL !

wow 😮 very interesting topic and beautiful to watch. 😊

Your neighbours definetly love you :D

Instead this man should be nursery rhyme singer .... this is diode gone wild he's an electrician now...😂🤣🤣

Even more salt?

Great Tesla coil, it worked well. Always some R&D is needed during testing and sometimes equipment fails. I think The HV winding has shorted to the core. 8.8 kV, insulation break down.

You had the best tune at 4:10 for sure. Good job that was awesome. Subbed.

This is the best home made Tesla coil in this size that I've seen. Seen lots of others and their sparks are some centimeters or such but this... daaang. So wanna create one that's 3 times this size

You have huge confidence, bravo

(2:17) - "And of course now the question is..." "...is it a good idea to plug this in ?" *_"Of course, it's NOT a good idea but..."_* *_"LET'S PLUG IT IN !"_* Oh my days ! That just killed me ! >

Hey great work 👍🏾 liked those continues sparks.... I think you can try something different for spark gap.. because if it is heating so badly means it is waisting lot of power , if u use fan it will just dissipate heat but might now help with sparking.. or improve efficiency

1:05 Litz wire, as such. Whole thing seems to work. Look forward to some experiments. Thanx.

Bloody he'll this is amazing

absolutely crazy

That is one janky pile of components :P! The best videos are ones where the camera gets distorted by the thing it is trying to film "One of the transformers is burning... ... ... ... ... lets turn it off" Lol amazing comedic timing

...."Something went wrong".... I died laughing!!!! Almost wet my pants!!! IGOR.... Throw the switch!!

it's nice to see the arrows that look for the metal behind the plasterboard

bloody hell

That is freeking awesome my good sir. Thanks for sharing.

You are ready for the Terminator effect team. Hyoo you are really crazy (this is a compliment :)

btw, how could the tesla coil destroy electronics when plugged in to the socket ground? does it somehow induce a very high voltage and frequency current into the ground cable that travels around to all the electronics' ground, just blasting them with a high voltage pulse? if so, how come it doesn't just return to actual ground?

see that kick into life was special.. fair play to man that class really class..

Naughty naughty!! Now open up to allow Ozone to escape!!

Plz don't burn your house down

His connection to the Force is growing stronger.

Nicely tuned.

I really love his videos. Are very informative and useful.

Very nice video, I was looking for your cat and pray that it isn’t laying around 😁😁

I can’t believe your phone survived the emp pulses from it lol. That was insane lol. Was their marks on the wall from the plasma arcs lol.

that is way crazy stuff im more scared now of even thinking about it

Having had unwound too many microwave oven transformers I can say the secondary enamel is almost always degraded. The primary enamel usually survives, but the much thinner wire probably effects the enamel adherents perhaps? The primary is almost always an alloy type wire which seems much lighter than copper. Actually I just weighed one and it’s {looks at note } 192 gm I cut the cross sectional area to weigh it roughly, and it is about 950gm If we assumed a perfect half between secondary and primary {it’s not} then even if the area the primary was wound was 450gm That seems like a very light primary.

wow, ust wow !!!!!!!!!!! great work of art

Mom: Son, don't go outside, there is storm with lightnings. Son: Mom, but mister on this video makes his own lightnings, should I still be afraid? XD

When the spark gap is too hot, the sparks will slowly turn into arcs and short out the high frequency energy that you wanna dump into the coils. It doesn't quench properly anymore.

' off course it's not a good idea to plug it in.' 'so let's plug it in.'

0:26 i love the way he says: just this crappy washinga machiiiiiiinne-a.

Woaw!!! horribly terribly interestingly watching from India

Connected using skriouuuuuuuus!

Oh man, Tesla would be proud, or furious

Impressive results

That's great performance but why didn't you use your tuner? You can measure the secondary (remote from the primary) the way you showed before, and you can measure the primary (remote from the secondary) by shorting at the spark gap and connecting your tuner across the primary coil. For the primary test, the LEDs are bright EXCEPT at resonance. Looking forward to seeing your next video when the system is properly (safely) built and tuned, and giving its best show.

Try not to fry the washing machine pcb. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I also had a problem with arcing between the primary and secondary. I basically put a whole roll of electric tape between them.

And the improvements never came of courrrse

You discovered the Magic Smoke...

Would a flat ring of acrylic sitting on top of the primary help prevent sparks from the secondary... or even something shaped like an upside down top hat with a wide rim?

i just love how this guy speaks xd

Wow I'm impressed thanks for the show. Perhaps you could tune both primary and secondary with a sine wave generator under low voltage?

well to make the gap better just add americium near it!!

Yes, please build a spot welder with the burned transformator. Btw great video...

Hello, diodeGoneWild I want to design a 5v 60amp power supply for LED panel. I am unable to figure out where to study and how to start. I would appreciate if you could help thank you

impressive actually and dangerous thanks :D

super dodgy!!!!

Hey there. How are you. I am starting my tesla bud and appreciate all your efforts. You are very wise sir and I want to follow your instruction.. would it be possible for you to send me a link with your schematic on it. So very much appreciated. And anything else to do with the project that may be of necessity. Keep up the fabulous thinking and work. The world needs more great men like you. And soon to be me...

6:12 of course its _always_ the nicest part that burns out. Have that same issue myself.

6:57 what are those legs on the floor ? Also, is that washing machine working?