The Captain's Design Resource

The Captain's Design Resource

Set-up for measuring primary coil resonant frequency.

Introduction

When I first started tesla coiling a little over a year ago, although I found many awesome tesla coil sites out there, I really

couldn't find one that summed up the entire tesla coil design process. One site would have bits and pieces on primary design,

while another would have small tidbits on secondary or toroid design. And some websites would have a plethora of tesla coil

related equations, but not wouldn't include a logical step-by-step process to use them. I found that I had to piece together small

tidbits of information from a wide variety of websites to get what I actually needed.

The goal of this page is to provide a very simple and logical, step-by-step process, to which one can start from, and design a

complete working tesla coil. It will also provide resources and information on how to design other type of high voltage projects.

Tesla Coil Design Guides

(Acrobat Reader required)

Additional Design Guides will be added frequently.

Part II : Measuring the Resonant Frequency of your coils (Coming real soon . . .)

Part III : Sizing your output transformer

Part IV : MMC Capacitors

Part V : Where to find parts for my tesla coil

Part VI : How to build a homemade toroid (Coming real soon . . .)

Part VII : Tuning your Tesla Coil

Part VIII : Photographing your Tesla Coil

Part IX : Advanced Tuning

Part X : Rotary Spark Gap Design Guide

Part XI : Secondary Coil Building Guide

Part XII : Primary Coil Building Guide

Tesla Coil Design Software

TeslaCoil Software Links

Last modified August 16, 2005 08:05:21 PM