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Day: July 7, 2007

Battery Powered Tesla Coil

July 7, 2007 by Will O'Brien 14 Comments


I happened across this nice simple PWM circuit, and eventually ran across this excellent little tesla coil. The build information is pretty interesting. Between the capacitor brick and the car ignition coils, I’d say it gets pretty creative.

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