Original Tesla Coil Diagram. A tesla coil is made of two parts. Now to better understand what a radio frequency oscillator is let s take one further step back to first understand an electronic oscillator.
After years of messing with tesla coils i finally see what tesla was up to with single wire transmission with resonant coils and with longitudinal waves. They are weakly coupled linking around one tenth of their magnetic fields. Tesla coil is a radio frequency oscillator that drives an air core double tuned resonant transformer to produce high voltages at low currents tesla s original circuits as well as most modern coils use a simple spark gap to excite oscillations in the tuned transformer.
More sophisticated designs use transistor or thyristor switches or vacuum tube electronic oscillators to drive the resonant.
After years of messing with tesla coils i finally see what tesla was up to with single wire transmission with resonant coils and with longitudinal waves. By following this guide you can build a tesla coil capable of generating over 4 arcs of lightning. In a drsstc the circuit driving the secondary lc circuit is another lc circuit tuned to the same resonant frequency. Welcome to the tesla coil design construction and operation guide.
