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• Twin Tesla Coils at the Royal Institute Christmas Lecture on IPlayer

  Extreme Electronics • 12/26/2016 at 23:48 • 0 comments

  This years Royal institute Christmas lectures including the PiZero Twin tesla coils are available to watch (in the UK) at https://t.co/1H3bK6CH4R
  

  Should be available via http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/supercharged-fuelling-the-future/about-supercharged-fuelling-the-future at some time in the future
  

  Details of the recording via Extreme Electronics web site.
  

• Twin Tesla Coils at the Royal Institute Christmas Lecture

  Extreme Electronics • 12/16/2016 at 15:25 • 2 comments

  Very honored to be invited to the Royal Institution to demo these tesla coils at the Christmas Lectures (to be screened boxing day BBC4 20:00 in the UK or via http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures after Boxing day)

  A behind the scenes tour from Matt Parker catches some of the demo about 2 mins in.
  

• Cambridge Teslathon

  Extreme Electronics • 12/03/2016 at 22:45 • 0 comments

  I took the coils to the Cambridge teslathon 2016 and as there is less pressure there to not blow up the coils, I let them run at the highest power yet.

  Even after runs like these the IGBT's remained cool. Unfortunately, I could see the start of corona from the primaries, a good sign that it is near the max power.

• PI Zero Tesla Coils at Derby Mini Maker Fair

  Extreme Electronics • 12/03/2016 at 22:40 • 0 comments

  Derby Mini maker fair. Took the PI Zero twin. Entertained the crowds for a solid day with no issues. I must admit I was conservative with the power. Very well received, loads of interest.

• Proper case from old acrylic sign

  Extreme Electronics • 12/03/2016 at 22:35 • 0 comments

  Realising that if I was going to be moving this project around a single acrylic base with all of the "live" components on was not such a good idea I have created an acrylic box from 6mm acrylic from a recovered sign.

  You can see this case in use in the following Demonstrations of the PIZero Teslacoil
  

• Spare boards force a twin tesla coil

  Extreme Electronics • 06/08/2016 at 18:24 • 0 comments

  OK, so its OSHPark's Fault. You get three boards.

  I got my prototype up and running had had a couple spare. As Its I2C from the PI to the controller, It was easy to set a different address and run two controllers on the buss.

  Here is the result running at the Notts Gaussfest 2016 running at low power due to no heat-sinks.

  I now have the heat sinks, just need a box (as most of it is live and open to fingers :(

• The First light of the controller.

  Extreme Electronics • 06/08/2016 at 15:30 • 0 comments

  First test

  Not bad :)

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