UK Tesla Coil Builders
Below is a list of Tesla coil builders in the UK.
If there is someone in your area that you didn't know about drop them a mail and get together. If you know anybody else who might like to be on this list please let them know and get them to mail me at EMAIL ADDRESS and I'll put them on the list. If any of the URLs or Email address don't work or you have changed them then please let me know. If there is any coil info missing from your profile drop me a post, or if there is no picture you can send me one(180w by 197h @ 72dpi).
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Bob Golding
Cambridge
yubba@clara.net
No site as yet
Secondary 4" by 22"
Powered by an 8.2kV 250mA radar transformer
Nick Slaymaker
Hitchin, Herts
nick.slaymaker@lineone.net
http://website.lineone.net/~nick.slaymaker
Secondary:-10" by 50"
Powered by a 8.2kV @ 250mA radar transformer
Max spark length
Built in association with Bob Golding
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
v.c.watts@Softromech.co.uk
No site as yet
Secondary 6" by 20"
Powered by a 5kV @ 100mA neon trans
Gap:-sync rotary
North London
alexcrow@clara.net
No site as yet
Reading, Berkshire
info@hvfx.co.uk
www.hvfx.co.uk
Bath
Legion@bigfoot.com
http://www.legion-elec.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Secondary coil 4"
Powered by a 16kVA pole pig
Spark gap:- RQ static
Newcastle
tesla@richieburnett.co.uk
http://www.richieburnett.co.uk
Secondary: 4" x 21", Toroid: 4" x 22"
Power: 1800 watts, Capacitor: 70nF MMC
Spark gap: 200BPS sync rotary
Max output: 66 inches
Bristol
stevecrawshaw@cableinet.co.uk
No site as yet
secondary:- 4.25" by 22" close wound
Powered by an 25kV @ u/a mA
4.7nF MMC cap with a forced air RQ static gap
Toroid:-3" by 12" welded steel (very heavy)
Enfield, London
colindancer@hotmail.com
http://www.pyrochrome.net/tesla
Lancaster
chrisbus_telford@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/chrisbus_telford/
Corfe Mullen, Dorset
richardbarton@caving5.freeserve.co.uk
No site as yet
Secondary- 10" X 4"
Power supply- 3 12K/30 NSTs
Static gap
Wimborne, Dorset
charles.a.hobson@btinternet.com
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/teslatutorial/index.htm
Secondary 250mm dia. & 1 metre long, 1000 turns
Powered by a 35 mA 8kV neon
Spark gap is 3/8" ball bearings silver soldered on to 5/16" brass bolts
Cap 0.037uF, Next on the list will be a 11kV 5kVA ple pig....
Durham
dunckx@freeuk.com
http://home.freeuk.net/dunckx
Power supply 10kV @ 50mA OBIT
Spark gap is multi-plate quenched gap
Cap 6 x 28kV mica ex-British Admiralty
Shropshire
john.wood20@btinternet.com
No site as yet
Secondary coil 6"
Power supply 10kV @100mA NST
RQ type static gap
MMC style cap
Mold, North Wales
hammaskeep@hotmail.com
www.btinternet.com/~sledgehamma/coil/disclaim.htm
Secondary coil 6"
Power supply 10kV @ 50mA NST
Sync RSG
Norwich, Norfolk
mail@theherbgarden.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.tesla-coil.info'/
Secondary coil 4.5"
Power supply 2X30mA NST's
Gap RQ static with forced air
Cap MMC type
Huntingdon Cambridgeshire
dgamble@supanet.com
http://www.teamtornado.co.uk
Secondary 7" by 48"
Powered by Twin MOT
Asynchronous rotary gap at 400BPS
50nF 20kV MMC
Southampton, Hants
paul@3rdplanetfromthesun.fsnet.co.uk
No site as yet
Secondary 2.5"
Frome, Somerset
colin.heath4@ntlworld.com
www.geocities.com/colinheath2002/
Secondary 4" by 21"
twin mot supply with voltage doublers
400bps sync rotary
66nf MMC type max output 4' 3"
North London
khalidschofield@hotmail.com
http://uk.geocities.com/ks_god/tesla
Resonator 14" by 60"
2 X 16kVA pole pigs
0-600 bps a-sync RSG
150nF multi-pulse cap bank
Maidstone, Kent
Nick@GreenRat.com
http://www.GreenRat.com/Tesla/INDEX.html
Secondary: 5" by 24"
Power: 10KV at 100mA
Gap: Static Planar
Terminal: 12" dia. Aluminium Sphere
Stapleford, Nottinghamshire
tesla@roffesoft.co.uk
http://www.roffesoft.co.uk/tesla
Secondary 'a cotton reel' 3"-1.5" x 9"
Powered by 6kv 20ma NST
Newark, Nottinghamshire
tesla@topgreen.co.uk
www.topgreen.co.uk/electrical/tesla01/tesla01.html
Secondary - 1200 turns 4" Diameter
Powered by 10kV 60mA NST
Nottingham
martin.dale@ntu.ac.uk
No Site as yet
Secondary 1200 turns of 0.5mm wire, tapered 5" by 21"
Powered by 8.25kV @ 0.25mA Radar transformer
Gap async 8 point RSG
Output so far 5' 6"
mail@davekearley.co.uk
http://www.davekearley.co.uk/
Secondary:- 110mm by 650mm
Powered by a 10KV 50mA NST
Max output - no idea yet
West Yorkshire
thedatastream@yahoo.com
http://thedatastream.4hv.org
JP-SSTC1 Solid State Tesla Coil
Auto tuning using CCFL ballast control IC
Max spark length - unknown as yet
Watlington, Kings Lynn
ronbarnes@waitrose.com
No site as yet
Secondary 5" by 24.5" 1100 turns
Power Supply: 5 kVA, 11.5 kV pole ( pig ) transformer
Spark Gap: Static; made from 3 / 4 " dia copper tube, 8 gaps
Max spark lenght - 60" vigorous spark discharge
East Sussex
mailto:wyvern@tompearceltd.co.uk
http://wyvern.4mg.com/
4" 817 turns on the secondary
10KV 25mA NST
Max spark output of 10"
Exeter
rl018a0336@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.m0bbv.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Secondary 2.5 * 15.5 inches.950 Turns
Power supply: 3.5k Neon Transformer @ 30ma
Saltwater cap.17nf, Static Spark gap
Output so far 8" to 9"
Derby
andy@10183.co.uk
http://www.10183.co.uk/
Secondary 4" with 1000 turns
Powered by : Full bridge of IRFP460s
max output : 12 - 13"
Alsager, Cheshire
rpmorrow@hotmail.com
http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/DIY_Devices/homemade_tesla_coil.htm
Powered by : Two 12V batteries, uses an adjustable static gap has special features
Max output 25cm
Manchester
tab@malik13.freeserve.co.uk
www.malik13.freeserve.co.uk
Not quite a coil but what the hell
Phillip Strauss
Stamford, Lincs |
Nottingham
paul.rossiter@ntlworld.com
No Web site - yet
Secondary:- 4.25" by 22"
Powered by a 10KV 5mA NST
Max output - no idea yet
Tiverton, Devon
jon.lewthwaite@btopenworld.com
No site as yet
Secondary coil - 4"
Power supply - 8kV @ 30mA NST
Static spark gap
Worcester Park, Surrey
si_hewitt@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.megajoule.co.uk
Secondary 4.5"
Power supply 10kV 50mA NST and 10kV 30mA NST
RQ static with air blast quench
Cap 1 x 0.022uF 20kV Maxwell
Cambridge
jgraley@arm.com
www.arm.com
Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
exxos@bigfoot.com
The site has moved
North Shields, Newcastle
gmforrest@tiscali.co.uk
No site as yet
Power supply 2X NST
Cardiff
cjhill@hills.u-net.com
http://www.hills2.u-net.com/tesla.htm
Worthing, West Sussex
peter.morehead@lineone.net
No site as yet
Jason Petrou
North London |
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