A DIY Tesla Coil Talk 2 Circuits, Accessories, & Misc Info

In today's video I am going to go over 2 relatively simple Tesla Coil circuits. The first one is the very common slayer exciter circuit, the second is a modified circuit similar to a ZVS (Zero Voltage Switching/Mazzilli) driver. I'll also go over some of the information I know about the parts and components and how to choose them for your build, DIY accessories you can make, and some basics on how to control the output of your Tesla Coil.
I am not by any means an expert, I know a bit but I can't directly help you with your Tesla Coils, I am an optics/Laser tech. The circuit was taught to me by my friend JP. Below is the original video showing his design.
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[@camION4994]

Hats off making a Tesla that small and working not an easy feat. Thanks for the extra info on Tesla coils will help in future projects !!! Your awesome !!

[@shawncalderon4950]

I have built a hundred slayer Tesla coils and most of them didn’t work but overtime, I was able improve them. I wish I had this video before I started this hobby!

[@Usnveteranstacker]

This is one of my favorite nerds on KZbin by far. Zen you’re the frickin bomb dude! I’m so happy I found this dude with less than 10k subs. When this dudes channel blows up I can say that I was one of the OGs! I really like your educational videos Zen!I’m shocked you don’t have more subs, but I guarantee that if you keep up the educational videos, mixed with some dope ass experiments of you also learning things, you will have at least 500k subs in the next few years. At LEAST 500k. And you would deserve it. SO DONT STOP TEACHING! I learn more from you than like 99 percent of the other electronic nerds. THANK YOU ❤

[@ChrisElisonElectronics]

Great video, love the tiny coils! 👍

[@JotticunChapter2]

such a curious and smart innovation, request:part 2 of plasma pen tutorial and stuff you like missed or want to show.

[@Zenodilodon]

The plasma pen does have a full tutorial. As I said, it's really a top skills sort of project of which is very difficult for most people to replicate due to it's size. There really isn't any new/updated information on it. You could probably use one of the modified ZVS drivers and a small TC in a plasma pen with good results though.

[@shawncalderon4950]

I will need to watch this video a bunch of times to mine all of its good content! One thing that would be great is to post a schematic. Nothing fancy, just a diagram where the ink isn’t fading:). You show a diagram white board at the end but it’s still a bit difficult to figure out. I say this because there are many noobies (like me) who want to build these Zvs circuits but are having a tough time reading your whiteboard. Maybe I am complaining because I am dyslexic! Now this format is superb, don’t change a thing, this is just a request from a humble subscriber.

[@Zenodilodon]

Yeah, sadly some of the markers where more dry than I had expected lol. The ZVS is pretty simple, I can try to find the diagram I made, but it's on a crashed HDD so I have no idea what I can recover on it. It really is quite a simple diagram though, I am certain that if you took a run through and drew a diagram along with me ( with better markers ), that you would come out of the other side with everything you need. There are also dual 555 and 556 interrupter diagrams that you can try to find too! Feel free to contact me through email and I can try to chase up the diagram.

[@kdkinen]

You and Mr Teslonian would be unstoppable

[@almustafa9949]

What an amazing video

[@shawncalderon4950]

Such a clean build!

[@kenword1968]

your verry good at builds yourself and a whole lot of other amazeing projects you have posted there is a few things that you make confuseing for some beginners.it might be the weed tho.lol..absolutely not ment as an insult so please do not take it as one.i truely learned alot from yourself and jp.thankyou for takeing the time to make and post videos..keep up the great work..2 thumbs up and four and three quarter stars..

[@NerdlabsSci]

Nice and informative video! Well done!

[@Zenodilodon]

Thanks! I hope to see you make some of these too!

[@ayahsadam9817]

Nice sharing

[@habibbhiri1640]

Dear Zenodilodon i am a retired and pass my time making various electrinic experiences is it possible to have the circuit diagram's? Best regards/

[@kdkinen]

You are the king

[@ayahsadam9817]

Thank for sharing

[@johnmirajkar]

Great sir 👍

[@xPantsMcGeex]

I got here from a my chemical romance video from 15 years ago i found in my emails from a friend in 2007. you commented on about emo kids lmao.

[@xPantsMcGeex]

I stayed for the tesla coil info

[@Zenodilodon]

@@xPantsMcGeex Hahahahahaha That's hilarious!

[@penguinclips9551]

Cool 👍

[@Sir-Dexter]

nice

[@sklzlm]

No way! How the F did you make that tiny TC? You must have a delicate touch along with some patience...

[@kdkinen]

You are so good man. Is there a link to a clear page schematic ?

Very nice video again, I enjoy all of them. I don't get why you would need the p-Type Mosfet in your quenching circuit. Can't you just leave the 22k in place and just short the gate/base to ground with the n-fet? If the gate is grounded, there is just a tiny current wasted through the 22k from vcc to gnd, but it should work in my opinion. Not sure if it makes a difference in high frequency though.

[@Zenodilodon]

My initial thought was along the same lines. I tried to just ground out the slayer exciter's transistor base but there was some issue. I don't remember what that issue was though. I went to using the P/N channel Fet combination that I used on the ZVS circuit and that fixed the issue.

[@kdkinen]

Connect their bases by a hair thickness wire and have unlimited distance

[@AllLoudNation365]

Here from Discord

[@elettronicaemotori]

HI congratulations for the tutorial. I also recently ventured into tesla coils. I would like to understand the 'Titan' circuit. can you send me electronic circuit? Thank you

[@kdkinen]

Wow embedded in a marker?!

[@phonotical]

You need some new pens! I always wondered about having an extendable secondary, like telescopic, or having the primary, which I usually see on only one plane, in different positions, I me a I'm sure by now that the reason it's on the bottom is for best output, but it would still be interesting seeing the effect of one in various positions (he said before you did it!) , or even a secondary coil in a square form, I'm an anarchist at heart The tiny one made me smile 🤣 With the inductors, could you influence, or add to the strength of the magnetic field, by placing a rotating magnet near by? Maybe a crazy question... Do those inductors need to run in opposing directions? Putting on a fan 🤣 you kill me! Could you use one to send and recieve messages from another further away?

[@Zenodilodon]

I am strongly thinking about showing up ElectroBOOM's Tesla Coil wand. He never really did complete his and I am wondering why. Looking at his electrostatic wand vs the original JP and I put together I can see that his skills at assembly aren't as solid as mine/JPs. Should I make one?...I think so eventually.

[@Zenodilodon]

The inductors kind of need to be at an alike speed regime as everything else. There is some play you can do but they can't be too far off the frequency of the Tesla coil. Separate inductors can be wired however, but a center-tapped common core does need to be wound a certain way. The fan was a great move, esp on a 101F day! I am working on an RX/TX kit using the LM386 audio amp IC, however they don't always link very well unless they identical coils. Even putting a light/object near them changes this and causes issues. Pretty fickle set up but I have had results up to 15 foot away.

[@phonotical]

@@Zenodilodon go for it!

[@phonotical]

@@Zenodilodon today 15ft, tomorrow the world!

[@rrod0589]

I've watched a lot of these Tesla coil videos and none of them explain it in detail the way you do awesome video thank you! Can you make a step by step by video on how to build a Slayer excite? I'd really appreciate it I'm a subscribe on your KZbin channel

[@hamu_rozhek_chirokek]

Can you show me step by step how to connect a Tesla coil with electricity and a tesla coil without electricity 🙏

[@atifebandit7320]

can you do a teardown of a handheld hair removal laser please

[@kdkinen]

That little guy must be really high mhz frequency

[@rodriguezfranco3839]

very cool I rencently discovered the push pull sstc works great for low power cw if you kick start it by biasing the gates and once it starts you take out all the gates bias voltage it draws low power and is cool for energy transfer , lighting up fluorecent bulbs etc , but if I try to draw a arc it would kill the oscilation and I would need to kick start it again

[@Zenodilodon]

I checked out your channel and you have some good set ups. I would love to see further/more detailed explanations and diagrams for what you make. I think it would also boost the attention your channel got by far.

[@sree137918]

The push-pull version that I built around a year ago was pretty good , it can do 75kv draws 2a(my power supply maxed out at 2A) at 24v, and the mosfet never died. Also, it was a single mosfet sstc. I am 12yr old now, so I am that good or experienced in drsstc's

[@kdkinen]

The receiver should be wound in reverse.

[@Zenodilodon]

I'll have to give that a try!

[@delta-KaeBee]

Dude, ON POINT with those tinyTC's, & the SharpieTC's!! I can honestly say they were BOTH a first for me, in 5+ years of consistent interest & research into Tesla, TC's, and HF devices. WELl done Sir! 🤌 💯 ⚡🌀⚡

[@kdkinen]

The ZVS circuit. Could you get it to draw less current by choking further ?

[@Zenodilodon]

for a ZVS you can, the ideal way on these though is to use a PWM based interrupter. You can drop the current very low. I will hopefully discuss that when I get to making my TC magic wand video.

[@kdkinen]

@@Zenodilodon Of all the builders I've seen you have some of the most unique stuff.

[@qutube100]

All you can eat microteslas thanks Z!

[@Zenodilodon]

Literally bite sized Tesla Coils!

[@phonotical]

I bought one of those tiny ones to mess with and it didn't work, I got another and it still didn't work, turns out the leds were fucked, as soon as I changed them out it worked😑 sat there for too long like an idiot thinking, why doesn't that work Your neon is silvered? Woaw Now I want to make a 330vdc one 👀 Can you prevent corona more effectively using latex as a sort of paint Is it true that they could affect the nervous system in some way, I've heard some people who make these for years on years end up getting tremors

[@Zenodilodon]

Yeah bad LEDs would certainly stop a slayer exciter. The silver neons, they are strange... they also have green paint dipped tips on a bunch of them. I think they are for illumination best seen from the top in an even distribution of light, though I am not completely sure.

[@phonotical]

@@Zenodilodonfunky

[@alloverflorida5886]

Do the winding direction of the primary and secondary have to be same?

[@Zenodilodon]

They do not need to be wound the same. You can flip the primary connections on the slayer exciters or the gate drive transformers on the ZVS to run the coil as needed regardless of winding directions.

[@firstdomelastdome2918]

AgreadD~!

[@spandandutta2485]

The modified zvs one ..... Does the circuit have only one pull up 5k resistor...??

[@Zenodilodon]

Yup, you only need to start the osculation on one side to get it going.

[@spandandutta2485]

@@Zenodilodon oo thanks 👍🏼 mate 😀

[@theGraphicAutist]

COULDA SWORN THE FAST DIODES NEEDED TO GO FROM ONE GATE TO THE OTHER MOSFETS DRAIN... ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHOKES

[@Zenodilodon]

ON A ZVS DRIVER THE DIODES ARE CONFIGURED AS YOU MENTIONED. THIS ISN'T A ZVS BUT VERY CLOSE TO THE ZVS CIRCUIT. MY FRIEND SHOWED ME THIS, I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT NAME OF THE CIRCUIT BUT I AM SURE THERE IS ONE. IF I FIND IT I WILL POST THE NAME AS A PINNED COMMENT.

[@theGraphicAutist]

@@Zenodilodonwow thats interesting i heard theres mazilli zvs and there are other similar, tho i think its still zero voltage switching, but i didn't know that was the difference! thanks ur very bright for ur age... i wish i had gotten into EE b4 the age of 36 lol. I prematurely was thinking ur really breaking it down too much explaining everything cuz i selfishly already knew most of it but here u are explaining something for me! no one does it like this and its actually pretty fricken sweet! keep it up!

[@MAGATRON-DESTROY]

Im so confused I JUST WANT TO SHOCK SHIT!!!

[@Zenodilodon]

Being confused is the first step to understanding. I want you to shock shit too which is why I post DIYs!

[@Waveit5]

Hello, Do you have an Email for contact? thanks. (regarding new project)

[@sFeral]

Could you recreate this type of output? slOzK7VQLXU

[@GWorxOz]

Gibberish