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    pELFIMENTARY cite FLECTRONICS CO eR Lac sar ed iy ry . DK vat Reports for SWL’S Occ ECT 4 When solid rock replaces ether! TESL eS) i “Be ete AC a famous 1 METERS « SHUNTS OL : OV Ret Sa Tt3i[) PREC Ctl The enclosure everyone is talking about! WHISKEY BARREL SPEAKER SYSTEM pete BARE, LeTAL Ue Ea ra lefense 39 BNI) 0 K-K3 and White attack. P, R/LRI 39 RxB, , BNT# 39K-NI, p, BN2 39 N-B3# N7# 39 KNI, {1 NR wins going of Lindesberg ap- issue of “Tidskrift ss magazine, aia By Kenneth A. Wright and Wallace Kern Nation of Problem. SEC e cee Caer eee eee meas pene tronics hobbyists will find Etementary ELectronics' Tesla Coil an in: ess Olympiad (In- het Ce en ate metre erty thip) ee eC Ruairi aed ree tite Uy tha Final with « giant coil’! may also lead to an interest in Dr. Tesla, whose work is sited States barely PN Aus a retort a ee cae peti, Bit eer eeu Ce eee Ouee Senate believe Tesla was as great as Edison—or even greater—in his con. by) J. Fischer of Luis Oese[ sem eee Tesla's Contributions. During Dr. Tesla's time, in the late 19th sng tally included, ‘century, only direct current (DC) was used commercially, (turn page) ied for third and = MaxJowe, 1967 ax Exrcrnoxacs| ERY G/Q mo though there was some knowledge of alter- ‘ating current (AC). Tesla was the fist per- son who investigated the practical uses of al- ternating currents to any great extent. A few years after he came to the United States (1884), Tesla worked out several pos- sible systems of alternating-current machi ery, dynamos, motors, transformers, and di tribution systems for which he was granted 45 patents between 1887 ang 1893, In 1891, George Westinghouse purchased some of ‘Tesh's systems and used them at the 1892 Chicago World's Fair to supply all the lec tical power needed. Dr. Tesla proposed a 7500-kilowatt trans- mittng plant preducing RF currents at 100- million Yolts. One of the chief uses for this transmitted energy would be to illuminate “isolated” homes. The energy would be col- lected by a terminal a litle above the roof of each house, He actually built a generator similar to the one he proposed and lit 300 electric bulbs 25 miles from his laboratory. He start- ed to build a transmitting station—probably the world’s largest Tesla Coil—on a site near New York City before World War I, but ran out of funds. A Tesla Coil. This highwoltage RF gem erator is more commonly known as a Tesla Coil, although the actual construction hard- ly resembles the original apparatus of Dr. Tesla, The Tesla Collis a dynamic demon- strator of electrical principles, and a crowd pleaser as a science fair project. It ean be built for much less than the estimated cost— Rear tiew ofthis Tul’ Coll shows the location of fhe major componerts. Layout ict ertcl but ll leads fo coil, vacuum tuber ad bypor capoctors theld be kept ox tar ox posble—ae in wig. it you can shop around the “bargain coun ters” in parts stores. All the materials used in building the unit pictured here were from warsurplus components. (The paris list gives stock, over-the-counter parts, Admit tedly, new parts are expensive, so some wise shopping may be in order.) The Tesla Coil is very easily built and it gives good rests, Sparks several inches long may be obtained from the coil at voltages on the order of 50,000 volts. Circuitry. The apparatus consists basic. ally of a plate-tuned oscillaior, as can be seen in the schematic diagram, Practical any transmitter-type triode vacuum-tube wi serve in the oscillator. ‘One of the things considered in selecting a tube was that it have a plate voltage rating ‘of about 1500 volts. The high er the voltage, the more spec tacular the experiments that may be performed with the - apparatus. The second factor considered was that it have a fairty-high power output (of about 150 watts or more), Two SILA transmitting tie > odes met. the specifications Both of them are used, in ‘Schematic diogram of the Tesla Coil «tha elfersate wiring connections Tiaes. Circuit i quite Hosble. materials used ere were from he parts. list parts. Admi |= some wise i “esla Coil s good results, yy be obtained the order of consists basice or, as can be m, Practically suum-tube will xd in selecting voltage rating olts. The high- the more spec iments that med with the second factor that it have a er output (of tts or more). insmitting specifications. are used, in Testo Coil, nections in doled ile. Max Jom, 1967 I—L014e, 2000 DE, cewmicsioe er ‘nice capaci {two or more capacitors in percilt—see text) 20¢4-nf., (400-mn.) Centralab DD30-407 Dl, (1,000nmf) Centreleb —DD30-102 ‘erequie (€2—O02-mf.,(2,000emm) 2000-vel BC, carer imie disc copactor (Centrolob DD20-202 or eum {€3—00075-mf., (750mm) 3000-rlt DC, coro mic dse capacitor 4, C5—hom, COOvel BC, melded tbulor ‘copector Fi=Gempere, gloss corrdge fone LI=26tvins, AWG-16, enameled wire (see text) 12-26101ns, AWG-14, enamaled wire (ae ft) 12-2100:v0m8, AWGL26, enameled wire loos vert) (M1000 ailliomperes DC, (Shure $50, 850, 950 or equiv-~ene text) 1M2=0:150" voirs DC, (Lafeyette 99RS040 Parallel, to deliver a total output of about 300 watts of RF power. ‘Supply Transformers. A high-voltage- secondary transformer (delivering about 1840 volts at about 250 milliamperes) is Used as the AC plate-voltage supply. In the schematic diagram, 2 0.00075-uf by-pass capacitor is placed across the high-voltage secondary to prevent the high-frequency current from going through the transformer and out the AC power line, The filament-transformer secondary sup- plies 6.3 volts, and 4 amperes ate needed for each tube. Since the cathodes in these tuubes are directly heated, the current from the plates must flow through the filament transformer to the filament. This is best accomplished by PARTS LISTS FOR TESLA COIL etvivmoe tent) '=10,000-shm, S0-wat, wirewound potenti- ‘ometer (Ohmite Type 4.0332 yitreourseamaled hoot) R210,000-shm, 10-wart, wirewound resistor 31,323 pan. toggle swith Ti#iote ‘transformer, THOvelt, 250me see ‘ondary Ullied-Knight 63U700\ or equiv) T2Filamen’ transformer, 63.vely, Tampere secondary (Alled-Knight 61Z418 or viva phenol 48-8584, Johnson 123.209-1, er bets fee) ‘ILeodhin bushing (EF, Johnson. 135.59 or a Misciagnt wie, hosp wir, cll forme, ‘wooden tabine, wood” Sora, mating roe increases "Q™ of grid inductance thet of plote tonk LI-C1. Low resitonce coils less infernal losis ond” higher output-brath discharge is greater becoise of better ficiency. connecting the B~ to the ear See centertap of the filament 83M ——~ fee ‘winding, making a complete ERWASHR—-

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