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Tesla Coil Tuner

June 24, 2008 by Will O'Brien 5 Comments


Here’s one more use for the insanely handy LM555 chips. [Terry] put together a Tesla coil tuner around one. The 555 is used to generate a range of frequencies while a simple double LED arrangement indicates the presence of an output spike from a coil due to the resonance.

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