Favourite Coils:

These three coils are examples that I would dearly like to see 'in the flesh', or better still own.

Firstly is the "The Biggg One", that can be seen here:





And the 'Green Monster' which you will find here:




And lastly, a coil that suffers with the same trouble as my own, but in this case the ceiling is higher:




These coils all produce nice thick streamers: raw power at its very best. They are also of the conventinal sort using a rotary gap, meaning that no solid state electrics were used in their construction. Personally I can live without the musical coils, just show me a good solid white hot streamer anytime!

Other Tesla Coil Builders

There are lots of websites covering Tesla coils, a lot though are by novices like myself, so below are a few that I have found to be a cut above the rest. Because of the knowledge that these people have on the subject they are a very good starting point to learn about Tesla's.



A good newsgroup for Tesla coils is the 'Tesla Coil Mailing List' It is now mainly aimed towards solid state coiling, but there is plenty of information for spark gap coils in the archives, which are both extensive and searchable.


A very comprehensive site with good theory from a man who really 'knows his mustard' is
'Richie's Tesla Coil Webpage'.


Another comprehensive site is 'Terry's Tesla Coil Site'.


Bart Anderson's excellent software (JAVATC) for designing Tesla Coils at 'Classic Tesla'


The UK Tesla coil builders here.


Useful Java tools, plus a step by step guide, 'Deep Fried Neon'.


Useful site for novices is 'General Tesla Coil Plans'.


A good collection of various sites was found at the 'Hot Streamer' site. (Now closed but the archives are to be found at that link.)