Make a mini 'Tesla coil' (Easy to make)

*)BATTERY
*)On/Off SWITCH
*)TRANSISTOR 2n 2222A
*)22K RESISTANCE
*)20ml SYRINGE
*)27NUMBER COPPER WIRE

[vincecox]

That is so cool, YES it works, I'm a Ham operator, X Military. Now what you do is change it up a little, If you add an antennae to the top of the coil say 100ft out in the air then put a small xmas lamp on the primary where the battery was... The objective is to tune in to the 60 cycle energy that is everywhere visavee the power companies. you might need a little parallel capacitance on the coil to get to the 60 cycle range and start to receive the radiant power.

[xtraordinarypilot]

I made it for my science project, it worked, and i won the 2nd prize! Thnx a ton brother (Bangladesh)

[MixedBag]

Let me just say that I agree with you 100% when you say that water is an untapped power source. If we could just find a way to fuse protium(just like the sun does, but much, much, much faster) efficiently, one gram of water would be plenty enough to provide five megawatt-hours. Fusion power isn't even dangerous like fission is, and it's kinetic outcome is far greater. If we could find a way to fuse hydrogen-1 and recover just 20% of the energy for further fusion, the ocean will provide all the power we will ever need.

[adityanand]

This really works! With the right components. Thanks man

[arisxa]

Its not fake. My son (13 years old) made it and it is working. He tried hard again and again and it is really working!!! Thanks for your advice.

[jeffcarpenter]

ive put this together myself and got good response from my project its not complete but it works like implied in video in the making it takes time so i have time love the video

[womanoffaith]

I got interesterd in making this after watching "A Sourcers'rs Apprentice."
In the scene its not just any tesla coil couse its flowing electricity is visable and when it hits another tesla coil u here a drum creating music witch i think is pretty cool.
I been looking for a diy of this and can't find it
Is it even a thing ???

[paulbogdan]

Can't wait to play some more. I will try 4 and 5 winds of primary. I may also try other transistors to get the heat down.

[Its-]

Sir when i joined youtube first time to watch electronics project videos then you are my first guider.Sir your projects are very nice.Sir i also try your videos S Kumar.

[Paraglidingify]

Preaty good projcet.
But i dont know how can this work. How can secondary winding swich off the transistor if it is only conected to one end?
I am asking how do we get alternating current?

[Therookie]

You can improve your circuit by using a 1000uf electrolytic capacitor after the two terminal of the battery. It will increase the brightness of the CFL

[Gujarati]

What is length of pipe and diameter of wire

[drogersnm]

S. Kumar, that's probably a lot of fun to play with! I'm 74, but just may build some of your projects to play with. With a 3-turns primary coil and a 256-turns secondary coil, using a 9-volt battery, looks like you would be getting close to 768 volts (nominal) out of your high-voltage transformer. Lights those fluorescent lights pretty well, anyway. COOL! If you get ambitious later and increase the turns ratio of your transformer (where the time-consuming part of building this is), you might get some cool sparks from that little 9-volt battery. Of course, you can also shock the crap out of yourself if you accidentally touch the transformer output wires. : >) Fun stuff! Keep up the good work, man.

[TelescopeGreg]

This is not a fake and in fact does work. I built mine and it initially did not work. To get it to work I found my primary was wired backwards. So for anyone that is having problems the first thing to try is to reverse the primary connections. No need to rewind it. Just swap connections. Also I know a couple of electrical engineers that have made real tesla coils and they did confirm the circuit. I got mine to work and you can too. Just make sure you have everything else exactly as outlined in the video. It works!!!!

[seanhenderson]

Great video! It was clear, concise and well made. I wish more videos were like this, keep up the great work!

[khushboolata]

मैंने इसमें देखकर प्रोजेक्ट को पूरा किया है मेरा प्रोजेक्ट पूरी तरह सफल रहा इसके लिए आपको बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद

[untrust]

We need ElectroBoom to rectify this.
Why I think it's fake: at 3:25 he brings the lamp close and only after a second it comes on then goes off before he moves it away. I suggest he is powering it from another source and turning it on / off.

[Electromaniaworld]

nice idea. i am wondering how much the thickness of the wire affect ? can we take any thickeness ?

[loukacrepeau]

I try doing it but it didint work can u guys help me

[georgeknowles]

There's some comments saying that you need ac for the thing to work. You don't need ac in the generally accepted sense- 50 or 60 Hz, being a sinusoidal variation of voltage over time. All you need is to switch the dc on and off. The on/off switching of dc current in the small (primary) coil will induce high voltage in the secondary coil. That means the transistor must be switching on and off to produce the continuous on/off current in the primary. The 2N2222A is a switching transistor. Not sure if the circuit will work, but I'll give it a try. Maybe the transistor is not man enough for the job and you need a different one. Make sure that you mount the transistor with the flat side up. S Kumar- please correct me if I'm wrong.