| Welcome
:-)
My name is James Pawson and I am an Electronics Engineer living in Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire, UK with my wife Angie and my son Benjamin. My interests
are Tesla coils, electronics and computers and I play squash to keep fit.
I also play chess, drink real ale,
watch birds and enjoy being outdoors.
Tesla Coils
"Inazuma" Mk. 1 DRSSTC
A mid sized Dual Resonant SSTC, currently under construction
"Stubby" SSTC
A Solid State Tesla Coil has been finally completed to a reasonable standard
after a few years of on-and-off (mostly off) work.
SSTC Gate Drive Transformer Design Guidelines
This is now more condensed than the original with better
organised information. Essential information for designing your GDT.
"Titch" SSTC
Bodged together SSTC powered by a modified AT power supply.
Ran fine from a bench supply but the AT supply proved unsuitable for pulsed
applications... see why (it excels as a
general lab supply though)
A LOPT (flyback) transformer driver
...that varies the output voltage by adjusting the duty cycle of a 555
timer. This is used as a power supply for...
A small Marx generator
built from scrounged parts.
Electronics and Other Projects
How to modify an AT type PC power supply
...to give a variable output of up to 48V DC.
Photos
Tesla Coil Links
- Richie Burnett
has possibly the best theory website going - essential reading
- Derek Woodroffe is
a prolific TC builder, building big, small, smaller and even smaller
coils. There's plenty of inspiration to be had.
- Steve Conner's site also
has some very well designed circuits as well as the
monster OLTC II - one of the best designed coils I've seen.
- Steve Ward has some great
coils and circuits
- Jan Wagner has
some good theory, especially on
SSTCs
- Dan produces some professional looking coils, and has some design
information on
his site (scroll down)
- The forums on 4hv.org are a good place
to ask questions and bounce ideas of people.
- The Tesla Coil Builders Of the
UK (TCBOUK) have regular Teslathons and Gaussfests in Nottingham,
Derby, Cambridge and other locations. There is also a mailing list too.
- Mike Harrison's Electric
Stuff website has tons of high energy, high voltage and other great
stuff.
Electronics Related Links
Other Links
- This UK
Surname Profiler shows distribution of surnames over the UK.
- Hyperphysics
is a great online physics resource
- Live
UK Lightning Detector that updates every minute. Very impressive
when there are storms moving across the country
- Ultimate Boot CD - very
handy for figuring out what is wrong with PCs. Includes Hard disk test
and partioning tools, memory test tools and much more.
- Mp3tag is a really good ID3
tag editor for MP3 files - it also has the capability to get album info
from freedb. Highly recommended, it saved me an hour or two of renaming
files manually.
Site Info
This site was designed using Dreamweaver, a bit of CSS and the odd half
hour here and there.
I can be contacted at the following email address
james at pawson dot plus dot com
All
of the work on this website (unless stated) is licensed under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License |
| Caution:
Some of the projects detailed on this website involve working with
dangerous voltages. Lethal charge can be retained on capacitors
even after turning off power. You should not use the information
on this website without understanding the risks involved, which
include explosion, fire or injury.
Recommend that you read this
safety guide on working on mains powered equipment and this
guide to Tesla Coil safety.
Do not look into power supply with remaining eye! |
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