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A Small Number of Pictures of Our Tesla Coils, and their construction

A little dreamy conical coil... ...Do the demensions look familiar?

Another shot of the neat-looking conical coil. The terminal seen is hand-cast and polished.

Mr. Fuller, our metals teacher, cutting the pvc for the baby coil

The coils were wound on this metal lathe

A finished baby coil

A finished bigbaby coil. That's me on the right, a fellow Voltage Obsessive on the left. Pics of this one!!!

All of the remaining pictures suck. I didn't take them, nor did I scan them. But, alas, they are all I have for right now.

a Shot of the babycoil

Another shot of the babycoil

And another...

Yes, that is a human hand above the coil. That's MY hand above the coil, with arcs striking a steel sphere I was holding.

I do not reccomend, under ANY circumstances, that you touch the output of any high voltage device. The reason the high frequency currents do not hurt me in this photo is because human nerve tissue does not respond to very high frequencies. I still recieve all the electricity through my arm, and my flesh is heated, much like in diathermy machines.

The Big Baby Coil

This is the BBC in its second incarnation, making 18" arcs. It now makes 30" arcs...

My school has an old bi-polar coil

A close-up. No pics of the arc, but it looked much like a the output of a flyback transformer, about 1.25" long. I didn't have a chance to open up the casing of the coil, to check what kind of components it had, but the sparkgap was adjustable, and appeared to be running with a spark only perhaps 4mm long. Needless to say, this is a very low-power coil

Posing for a shot with our favorite subject

"JESSE. WE WANT TO DO HIGH VOLTAGE."
"But I can't! I'm setting up a network for a friend!"

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