Design and construction of a Tesla coil with difference top load shape / Fadhli Fadzil

A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high voltage, low current and high frequency. This project focuses in innovating the design and constructs a small scale Tesla coil which produces a high voltage but low current and produce high frequency. It is important to increase students knowledge on how to generate a large force from small entry. The TeslaMap Version 6.2 software was used to design the parameters. There are five basic components of Tesla coil such as the power supply, primary capacitor, primary coil, secondary coil and top load. By using TeslaMap Version 6.2, it is ease in reducing time to calculate all the parameters of this Tesla coil. In addition, spark gap is used as a switch in Tesla coil. The switch allows the primary capacitor circuit capacitance to charge and discharge. There are five basic fundamental design parameters that need to be determined, which are output characteristic of high voltage transformer, size and dimension of primary coil, secondary coil, top load and size of primary capacitor. However, the expected result of this project to design and produce the high voltage from low input voltage could be achieved at last.