Building the world´s largest Tesla coil-history and theory

Author

Johnson, Gary L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

15-16 Oct 1990

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

135

Abstract

A plan to design, build, and test the world´s largest Tesla coil power transformer is discussed. The analysis will be performed by using the program TCTUTOR by J. Corum et al. (1988) with modifications. Power MOSFETs will be used to excite the coil. Hall effect sensors will be used to measure current waveforms and electric field sensors will be used to monitor voltage waveforms. Optical fibers will be used to transmit control signals and measured quantities to and from the Tesla coil. Tesla coil theory is discussed. Open questions are considered. The current status of the project is described

Keywords

Hall effect transducers; design engineering; electric sensing devices; fibre optic sensors; insulated gate field effect transistors; power engineering computing; power transformers; power transistors; project engineering; software packages; Hall effect sensors; TCTUTOR; Tesla coil; construction; current; design; electric field; fibre optics; history; measurement; power MOSFET; power transformers; project; software packages; testing; voltage; Buildings; Coils; Current measurement; Electric variables measurement; Hall effect devices; MOSFETs; Monitoring; Performance analysis; Power transformers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Symposium, 1990., Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual North American

Conference_Location

Auburn, AL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2115-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.1990.151364

Filename

151364