Exploring High Voltage Electronics: From Tesla Coils to HV Power Supplies

[NwcNlgUfh2]

Hi
Obligatory introductory post:
Currently a student in year 11 (Australian equivalent of high school junior?), interested in becoming an electrical engineer.

 

[jedishrfu]

Welcome to PF!

Thats great, what type of electronics are you interested in?

 

[NwcNlgUfh2]

Welcome to PF!

Thats great, what type of electronics are you interested in?

At the moment, messing around with high voltages (lasers, tesla coils, lightning globes etc), actually I am in the process of attempting to design a hv psu (at least 30kv output), just had to jump way back to square one because I realized that 1626300 ohms worth of potential divider would probably fail spectacularly at dissipating enough heat to keep itself in one piece (trying to keep output current at 10-20milliamps). Now I'm trying to figure out how to build a diy auto-transformer for it instead.

Other than that I have a copy of the ARRL handbook and I'm studying for an advanced amateur radio license.