Recent content by aabceh

What I have found about tuning the coil is that you adjust the amount of turns in the primary to get the greatest output from the secondary, but everything I've found about it has said to try one position and measure the arc length, then try a different position and so on, but that doesn't...

I have been testing it outside because I am using chicken wire as a ground. What do you mean about the turns matching up? Does the secondary need to have a multiple of the primary's coils? In my research I have never read anything about that, but I might just be missing it.

Hello all, I am in the process of building a tesla coil and I need a little help. I have everything completed enough that I can start testing it. I plug the coil in and the spark gap fires immediately and continuously, but no arcs come out the toroid. I tried moving the toroid closer to the...