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Hand-held tesla coil

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:40 pm
by Modderxtrordanare
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Hand-held, battery powered tesla gun. :lol:

I want to build one of these, it looks pretty nifty. :twisted:

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:46 pm
by thespeedycicada
id start with a small tesla coil like me (7 inches tall) besides this is probaly solid state as most small teslas are but yeah it would be nifty.

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:46 pm
by potatoflinger
What would you use it for, I'm not quite sure of the purpose?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:50 pm
by thespeedycicada
well that could put streamers of at least 2 inches so ignition, scaring people,mounting it on youre car, and a cool cattle prod would all be "aceptable" uses

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:54 pm
by hi
potatoflinger wrote:What would you use it for, I'm not quite sure of the purpose?
it looks cool and not much lelse.

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:54 pm
by potatoflinger
Oh, now I understand. What would happen if you touched it? :D

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:59 pm
by thespeedycicada
potatoflinger wrote:Oh, now I understand. What would happen if you touched it? :D
a small shock the worst that could happen with a tesla is rf burns ive never built powerful enough to do that though.

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:18 pm
by spud yeti
Looks pretty awesome. Is it worth sacrificing a drill for it though?

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:55 pm
by frankrede
harbor freight has drills for 20$

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:44 am
by flamerz14
I heard large scale telsa coils can be used to create artificial lightning. I wonder if it would work in spudguns?

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:04 am
by Hotwired
Ah yes, the old "why use a piezo ignitor when I can use a tesla coil to fire my cannon instead!" idea :P

I'd shoot myself in the foot before doing something so incredibly inefficient :wink:

The counter argument pushed out is that it would look cool or something.

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:09 am
by Mishkan
Would be cool to combine that, and the whole plasma creation
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http://www.instructables.com/id/E04KZEEF2FRVEHF/