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Here is a link for an identical one on amazon. Exact same kit. Tesla Coil DIY Kit, PEMENOL Touchable Plasma Ball Spark Gap Arc Generator for Physics Teaching, Arc Plasma Artificial Lighting Science Experiment Model for College High School Education a.co/d/aqHBILk

Yeah, the electrons travel a ways in the partial vacuum and then collide with the gas molecules which do some science thing that results in light being produced. Different gasses make different colors in partial vacuum.. I'm going to try water vapor next, I watched a neat video where a guy used it and It wa a very nice silver color. I'm using the mason jar because its what I had nearby. I'm a total noob at glass and any glass blowing. Should prob get an x ray detector before i play with this much more.

Yeah it def is lol.

@@JoshHopkinsYT one wrong move and you’d be dead before you know you had an accident

@@themadscientist40k Thanks

Yeah i think it might be. Need to get myself a good affordable radiation detector. ⚡😎😸

@@JoshHopkinsYT Or you could just restrain it with a yoke like they do on the old CRT television sets

@@JoshHopkinsYT i’ve done some really cool high-voltage experiments with small picture tubes. You can turn them into a high voltage capacitor. there’s actually quite a few interesting things you can do with them if you wire them up in interesting ways

That's a good idea, i'll defintely try that. I'm going to do some higher power stuff and test the limits of my jars and my hot glue insulation(nst, flyback transformer) , i'll definitely record those too, but I will be getting a real vacuum pump sometime in the future. Ty for checking out my channel :)

@@JoshHopkinsYT Seems like you're doing a lot of neat things around there, I'm sure others too would enjoy watching more - be careful with those jars / vacuum / heat - at least always wear eye protection for that one time you least expect anything haha - looking forward to more, volt on!

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Haha thanks dude 😸👍

Absolutely. I'll have to try it out next time, I do have an auto darkening one.

Yeah the guy that I bought it from said it came from a wood mill. Maybe it was used in some big commercial microwave heater thingy? Pretty cool tho, its a GE Transformer, with a nice sticker and box

Sure, the exact capacitors don't matter as long as they are high voltage and tbh i don't know if its saving anything but Im using several. Here is the link for the blue capacitors that i'm using www.ebay.com/itm/193050930981 I think i was using 40pF caps. Also I have some 6n8 1600v caps that I like as well but didnt really show in the video. But if you just order like 20 of those then use two on your zvs driver input and maybe a couple on each side of your switch it would be good. The theory is that without the caps, the wires could be charged and discharged rapidly and it could be harmful to the zvs driver and back feed into ur power supply. By adding capacitance to the wires, it seems that it would be harder for the wires to become too charged and discharged, because you can only transmit so much charge per cycle.. So basically you end up wtih less noise back feeding into ur zvs and power supply. IMO we need these.

Also I show some 40v 20,000uF capacitors that I got used on ebay. got 5 for 40 dollars. Altho I'm just using my smart power supply and not actually using a proper transformer that i rectify to DC with.

Ok, im at 28 turns now. If i detuned would it be more likely to have a primary/secondary strike, especially if im touching the output? Obtained a nice microwave yesterday with a huge transformer, excited to try that out. Ty mucho again :)

@@JoshHopkinsYT try the new mot first. Could try adding or subtracting doubler capacitance

@@KDewees91 ok. I have 12 mocs. Do u think thats overkill?

@@JoshHopkinsYT what freq are you running? Very well could be. Try 5

@@KDewees91 413 khz on 2ndary

Yes sir, that's definitely on the list of next things to do on here. Also I can now add a second MOT :) Ty for watching. Idk if I can sync this with mains but its defintely worth looking into, it does have an input as well as the two outputs. I haven't really messed iwth it much but ultimately I'm going to want to put a steve ward style dual 555 interrupter. Thanks again for all of your help and also the suggestion on the scr :)

@@JoshHopkinsYT no problem mate

Yes, they act as the grid leak resistor. They are easier to get than a proper high value resistor and they look cooler too imo

Hey thanks for commenting. I am using a single MOT instead of two and am running it at 60 hz. Also i'm using a 30amp switching power supply and giving the filament 12.9 volts DC. I have been using a 16" coil with 1050 turns and added a bit of top load to get the best result. I just got a 12 inch 750 turn coil of the same size wire and diameter(26 awg and on a 3.5 inch form) Haven't tried it with the 12 inch secondary coil yet, i'm expecting to have to reduce the amount of turns on the primary, just am taking my time before I do anything. Thinking about making a tap system. Im sure there's way more that I can get out of it from a single MOT. Also I'm using a second MOT as a ballast. Im using an auto transformer too, goes upt o 146v. I'm also using two 75 watt 120v incandescent bulbs in series as my grid leak resistor because i couldnt' get ahold of a 240v 150w bulb. I measured the capacitance of my doorknob caps and wrote on them with permenant marker also that way its easier to just swap them out for higher value since they go from 450 to 470pf, not a huge difference but its something. Thanks for looking and I have been really meaning to get out and work ont his thing again, eventually i'm going to add an interrupter and a second MOT to the voltage doubler but only after I get the primary and secondary more finely tuned.

@@JoshHopkinsYT try removing one of the lightbulbs. he was running on 240v 50hz and we're on 120v 60hz.

@@EthannCraftt Yes Im aware of my country's line freqyency. You need 150 watts worth of resistor at 240v, 120 woudl prob still work ok but you will need the 240 once you go to the 6000v on the plate i'm pretty sure. Seems to be working just fine. It really needs tuned more than anything.

@@JoshHopkinsYThm, ill have to try a few things whenever i build this circuit up myself. but my reasoning behind it is that he drew the lightbulb as an inductor, which if my understanding is correct means that he's using it as an inductive choke, so two in series would change the inductance and therefore the behavior, so ill definitely try only a single 75w bulb. worst case scenario if im wrong is that the output gets a bit smaller, which can be easily fixed by adding it back, no biggie.

@@EthannCraftt The lightbulb is being used as a resistor on the grids 1 and 2, adjusting the resistance would change the duty cycle. I see what you mean about that looking like an inductor tho

Thank you very much! I followed tested to destruction's "tested coil" schematic :)

@@JoshHopkinsYT good work mate 👍

You're welcome! Make sure to record it. Also that rotary sgtc sounds cool too, hope to see some of that in the future. Good luck man and if you have any questions I'm here. Also forgot to mention you should really insulate the flyback transformer from the wood, I used hot glue and bulit a platform of glue and rubber about 1 cm high to insulate it which i didnt show in the video.

Thanks for all the tips. And I’m excited for the rotary sgtc too. It will probably shoot up to a few foot long arcs hopefully

@@eckdirtbiking5113 You're welcome. That sounds so cool yeah. Make sure to record it!! :) And be careful. Can't wait to see :)

Ty buddy ⚡❣️

Hey Keaton. Very sorry i havent gotten back to you. Im preparing to film a walkthru of sorts of my sgtc right now. :)

Ok thanks

@@eckdirtbiking5113 ur welcome. Should be up in a few hrs or so.

Ok finished recording, gonna start editing now and will ahve the video up soon

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If you turn your volume up you will hear the song. But you are right, its a pretty crap vid. I'll prob end up redoing it some time as I just love the Moon Them and I didnt see any other tesla coil covers of it.

@@JoshHopkinsYT this looks more like the spinning light up toys you find at carnivals than a tesla coils.

@@JoshHopkinsYT also the song sound more like it coming from a speeker rather than produce by an electrical discharged

@@rendratvandonkereschrijver2912 If it was coming from a speaker i would have at least turned it up loud enough for you to hear the first time. lol