Hand-held tesla coil

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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:40 pm

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Hand-held, battery powered tesla gun. :lol:

I want to build one of these, it looks pretty nifty. :twisted:
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:46 pm

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.
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:46 pm

What would you use it for, I'm not quite sure of the purpose?
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:50 pm

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
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:54 pm

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

Oh, now I understand. What would happen if you touched it? :D
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:59 pm

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.
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:18 pm

Looks pretty awesome. Is it worth sacrificing a drill for it though?
really good quote/phrase here
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:55 pm

harbor freight has drills for 20$
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:44 am

I heard large scale telsa coils can be used to create artificial lightning. I wonder if it would work in spudguns?
well, this isn't much isn't it?
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:04 am

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.
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:09 am

Would be cool to combine that, and the whole plasma creation
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