LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Information about UK events and much more. |
Locate other Tesla coil enthusiasts in UK. |
Pupman Tesla Coil Mailing List. (USA) |
Terry's Tesla Coil web server. (USA) |
Safety Documents: | |
Pupman safety sheet | Thorough safety checklist with lots of useful tips. Check it out, you only live once ! |
Terry Fritz's Safety page | Highlights many of the dangers of working with Tesla Coils. |
Bert Hickman's safety page | Serious safety tips, backed up with some funny pictures ;-) |
Herb's Tesla safety page | Short summary of the dangers associated with Tesla Coils. |
UK Sources: | |
RS Components | Electronic equipment, components, materials, and tools. |
Tunewell Transformers | Manufacturer of high quality Neon Sign Transformers. |
HV Capacitors: | |
Norfolk Capacitors | UK Manufacturer of HV pulse capacitors. |
Hivolt Capacitors | UK Manufacturer of various high voltage capacitors. |
Cambridge Capacitors | UK Manufacturer of Metalised Polypropylene PFC capacitors. |
Arcotronics | Manufacturer of various capacitors including Motor Run and PFC. |
Aerovox | High quality electrolytic and pulse capacitors. |
Wima | More capacitors, data sheets and applications notes. |
Murata | High power RF capacitors, HV capacitors and flyback transformers. |
Solid State TC: | |
Alan Sharp's home page | Excellent solid state coiling pages. Includes many design and construction tips. |
James Pawson's TC page | Sound techincal information on a variety of SSTC designs and topics. |
Gary Johnson's Tesla Coil page | 8 Chapters documenting one of the largest SSTCs around. Essential reading. |
Jan Wagner's Tesla Coil page | Excellent Solid State coil section. Be sure to check out the "General design notes." |
www.hvguy.com | Well documented SSTC experiments with PCBs artworks, schematics and videos! |
Dan McCauley's SSTCs | Pictures and schematics for several Solid State Tesla coil projects. |
John Tomacic's Tesla Coil | Pictures and some documentation of a fairly large base fed SSTC. |
Don Klipstein's SSTC page | More solid state stuff. Discusses many different ways of driving a TC resonator. |
Marco Denicolai's page | In-depth documentation for a high-power solid state Tesla Coil supply. |
Chris Hill's SMPS page | This particular page contains a good summary of switch mode inverter topologies. |
Power Devices: | |
International Rectifier | High power MOSFET and IGBT devices, datasheets and application notes. |
Intersil (formerly Harris) | More power semiconductors. Good application notes for IGBTs. |
ON Semiconductor (Motorola) | More power semiconductors, data sheets and app notes. |
Semikron | High power MOSFET and IGBT packs. Also driver modules. |
Westcode | High current Thyristors and Diodes. |
Materials: | |
Tufnol Plastics | Phenolic laminate range. Includes material properties and machining tips. |
Tungsten Properties | More than just a hard grey metal ? |
Web Elements | Click any element to see its properties. (Conductivity, weight, melting pt, etc.) |
Engineering Info: | |
Tesla Coil Design Equations | A list of Tesla Coil related Formulae compiled by Matt Behrend. |
Electronic Eng training series | An excellent reference for basic Electrical Engineering information. |
Twisted Pair | Electronics abbreviations, terms and laws explained ! |
Pulse switching devices | John Pasley's paper on Pulse Power Switching Devices. |
Search Engines: | |
Dogpile | Sends your request to several search engines at once. Unleash the hound ! |
Applegate Engineering Directory | Comprehensive directory of UK Engineering companies. |