30W Bipolar Tesla Coil

130821 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are. This is a simple bipolar Tesla coil that's small enough to touch while it's running. A bipolar tesla coil is simply a tesla coil that has both sides of its secondary coil connected to electrodes facing each other, as opposed to a typical tesla coil which uses earth ground (or a sufficiently large ground plane) as one pole of its secondary coil.

This is probably the cheapest, easiest, and most convenient way to create a very high voltage power supply - simply a dimmer switch and an ignition coil. The output of my supply is over 30,000V DC.

Here's a list of the hardware i used:
Box - Hobby Lobby

6uF/220V Capacitor - Salvaged from an old microwave. This part is equivalent to the one i had: https://www.amazon.com/CAPACITOR-250VAC-APPLI-PARTS-6-250/dp/B01FY4CYQY/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=6+uF+cap&qid=1615147679&sr=8-1

600W Dimmer Switch - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FK9WYU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ignition Coil -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00809W952/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Primary Wire: 12 turns of 12 AWG Solid copper
Secondary Wire: ~1700 turns 32 AWG magnet wire
Electrode Arms: 1/4" Copper Tubing
Electrode Tips: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RBL5TQS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Everything else is 3d printed with PLA on a Prusa MK3S.

Music List:
Serge Pavkin - Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y35itcKMznM&list=PLGR5IhV9jJZEdLL9SeM9OmuwK0ve3RxR7&index=10
Serge Pavkin - Unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL1C6Kc0yic
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