How to make a Tesla Coil

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First of all, this is an extremely fun project to undertake that your whole family can get involved with. Plus, if you are fascinated by the mysterious history behind Nicola Tesla, then this is a way to tap into the genius of one of the most brilliant inventors of all time.

Learning how to make a Tesla coil is very simple to understand. Making one is also extremely cheap. It literally will only cost you around $100 and a trip to the hardware. The other benefit is that it's extremely mobile and you can take it with you on vacation such as camping trips. It's so diverse that it can power just about anything, and yes it can save you money on energy costs.

The coil itself also does not pollute in any kind of way, and because it works so well - was probably suppressed by the electric companies for a reason. In fact, if you build a large enough coil, you can get yourself completely off the grid, and doing so does not cost very much at all.

The Tesla generator can run at all times, including at night, and it's weather proof. There is no maintenance, and it's an exceptional alternative to expensive things like solar panels.

The generator can also be up and running very quickly, and unlike solar panels which can take years to pay for themselves, the Tesla coil starts recovering ages of money wasted on electricity bills immediately. All you have to do is learn how to make a Tesla coil, get the inexpensive parts and assemble it!

Picture this...

The sun is like one giant ball of pure energy. It's positively charged with a potential of up to 200 BILLION volts of electricity. Now let's take little old Earth, which is roughly 100 million miles away from our sun. Our planet is charged with negative electricity. This acts as a gateway of up to 4.5 megawatt hours (4.5 million watts) of electrical energy.

There is a mix between the positive energy that the sun puts out and the negative energy that Earth is coupled with, and our planet can be described as a "sponge" during this process. Unfortunately, before Mr. Tesla came around, the majority of this energy would bounce off our Earth's ionosphere and travel back into outer space.

That's the simple concept that the Tesla coil works with. The actual device has 2 inductive-capacitive oscillators. An LC oscillator has an inductor and a capacitor.

The inductor converts either an electrical charge or magnetic field into a current. An inductor is made from two electrical conductors that have been wound together into coils. Capacitors are made with at least 2 conductors that are then separated by an insulator. The capacitor's job is to convert the current into an electrical field, or it can take that field an convert it into a current.

When a charge capacitor is thrown into the mix and connected with an inductor, you will get a flow of energy from the capacitor through the conductor which then creates a magnetic field.

You can build a Tesla coil for home purposes, but it's important that you have the right set of plans or instructions first. If you aren't careful, you can indeed shock yourself. It won't be in the way that you would typically imagine. There is no pain, but instead it can really mess with your central nervous system, so although it's not particularly dangerous to make your own coil, some caution should be followed.

Mainly, you will need some easy to understand specs, and you will definitely need a parts list. The good news is that the items for construction are common and inexpensive. Finding instructions online is possible, but there are quite a few incomplete resources available.

I would recommend using The Tesla Secret if you are serious about learning how to make a Tesla coil from start to finish. It shows exactly how to make this same energy saving device that you can use in your own home.

Many people are becoming increasingly interested in going totally self sufficient to save money on home energy costs. This is OK, but the problem is that getting up and running is super expensive. Solar panels are an option, but they can cost tens of thousands of dollars to set up, and wind energy is certainly something to consider, but making your own windmill is also expensive to do.

The Tesla Coil however is something that doesn't cost much money at all to get up and running, and you can power a lot of items with it.

Nikola Tesla was by far one of the most brilliant minds in science. The sad truth however is that although he gave us so much, he simply made too many enemies along the way. He was the pioneer behind an immense amount of technology that we use even to this day. His coil is actually found in many television sets, and when Marconi carried out the first transatlantic transmission, he was using 17 patents that were from Tesla, but you would never know this. It's almost like he was erased from history.

Essentially, many devices that we use to this day are a result of Nikola's work. Anywhere from microwaves to radar technology - he is responsible for almost all of it. Much of it was politics. He was soon recognized as a threat to certain ways of thinking within big businesses, and basically his ideas were hushed. Rumors were spread by advocates of DC power that AC power was harmful to humans. There was a lot of propaganda, and they even used AC power to carry out death penalties to prove a point. This of course made Tesla's dreams seem scary, dangerous and painted him to look like a nut job, but he was not.

Unfortunately, even though everything was false accusation, it worked very well and the lies were intelligently carried out. Even to this day, the mystery of Nikola Tesla still stands and has people talking, but now you know the truth.

Also, the Tesla generator has the potential to cut electric bills anywhere from 30% - 100% - so now maybe you understand why the electric companies don't talk about it, or why you never hear anything mentioned on TV (the very device that would not function without Tesla's genius).

Nikola Tesla biography
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True Wireless article by Nikola Tesla