After a prolongated use of my two tesla coils (1 x First Gen, 1 x Second Gen), the Second Gen (OneTesla TS) got an overheat issue (which is warned about in the manual).
The primary winding, which is a PCB trace, overheated so much, it delaminated from the board. The coil was clearly under-performing, too. The ground jumper (secondary winding ground) under the board, which crosses the primary winding, also melted. There was no continuity between the two windings (not with a multimeter), but it is possible that some kind of undesired coupling was in play during use.
Here is a video of the "melted" primary winding :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3OQpj_9FM
So I opted to completely rip out the PCB trace (that was easy because some part of it was already delaminated) and make a new primary winding. Since the PCB trace was doing approximately 7 turns (3.5 on top, 3.5 on bottom), i made 7 turns of #12 AWG insulated wire on top of the PCB. I think the over-dimensioned gauge will help mitigate overheating.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/N6i7dsaLfYbWmBzWA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WmbBB4sWrgFbsrow8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AHXS4HME4VTgzwRt6
The coil now works as expected. The primary winding is attached to a cheap plastic ring using ty-raps. It's a little "draft" for now, but it works.
The "first gen" did not experience any overheating issue for the same "prolongated use". In fact, when the OneTesla TS is running at 100%, the arc length it produces can be reproduced with the "First Gen" running at 50%...
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Re: OneTesla TS Overheat
I've noticed in videos of the v1 and v2 and did notice that the v1 always seemed to have better arc lengths
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