Finally! At long last, my OneTesla has burst into life!
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:13 am
Many thanks to Alex and others who offered suggestions on how to get my One tesla working. After ordering new optical receivers from the US I fitted them last night and performed the low and high voltage tests successfully.
I plugged everything in and waited in anticipation... nothing! Then I swapped over the 21 and 22 ICs and boom! Sparks started flying. I was like a little kid on Christmas morning - absolutely buzzing!
I am using synthesia on the Mac and have used a few of the midi files I found on the site - many thanks to everyone who has posted
Not sure if synthesia is missing sending some notes to my coil, or whether I still have work to do to tune it (how do I go about doing that???) but some of the songs (like Beat it below) are obviously missing some sections... Any remedies to this?
There seems to be a few flashover points so I'll give the plastic coil holders a little sand down as suggested to smooth off the edges and get some polyurethane varnish to recoat the secondary.
Anyway, even though it's not perfect I am soon happy to get this up and running - my High School students loved it - should help boost my Physics numbers next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTUt7obXL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTUt7obXL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50e5dREnVs
I plugged everything in and waited in anticipation... nothing! Then I swapped over the 21 and 22 ICs and boom! Sparks started flying. I was like a little kid on Christmas morning - absolutely buzzing!
I am using synthesia on the Mac and have used a few of the midi files I found on the site - many thanks to everyone who has posted
Not sure if synthesia is missing sending some notes to my coil, or whether I still have work to do to tune it (how do I go about doing that???) but some of the songs (like Beat it below) are obviously missing some sections... Any remedies to this?
There seems to be a few flashover points so I'll give the plastic coil holders a little sand down as suggested to smooth off the edges and get some polyurethane varnish to recoat the secondary.
Anyway, even though it's not perfect I am soon happy to get this up and running - my High School students loved it - should help boost my Physics numbers next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTUt7obXL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTUt7obXL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50e5dREnVs