Make your own Tesla Coil (Part 2) || SSTC, IGBT Full Bridge, Interrupter
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In this three part video series I will show you how a common slayer exciter tesla coil kit works and how you can create your own improved version of a tesla coil that is commonly referred to as a SSTC. In this second part of the series I will show you how to create a top load for the SSTC as well as an appropriate IGBT full bridge driver. In the end I will talk about the function of the interrupter in the circuit.
Music:
In the Hall of the Mountain King, Kevin MacLeod
Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod
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Here is a quick explanation for those who are losing their mind right now because this will be a 3 part project instead of a 2 part project. First off, was it planned as a 3 part project? No! I usually try to stay away from such long projects since I know that not every viewer will like the project. And spending 3 parts on it or 3 weeks will certainly annoy such viewers who have no interest in the subject. But I had no other choice to extend it to a 3 part project this time. Not only was the build process very long but also problematic. I am still currently working on the feedback part of the circuit. Also I wanted to include how to play music with such a tesla coil since many viewers asked for it. In a nutshell such 10 minute videos are the absolute maximum that I can produce in one week in this one man production style. The first two parts were full so I had to extend it. I am also not sure whether part 3 will follow next week, since I want to offer variety for the viewers. Anyway, I hope you understand my struggle and look forward to the conclusion of this project. Stay creative!
GreatScott! We appreciate good things and understand that good things takes time......You have taught me a lot about electronics to me..... Thank You...
GreatScott! keep the great work man!!
If it had 50 parts I would watch all of them with a big smile in my face... I can't understand those people who are complaining about a free content (amazing content I should say)... It is understandable that people want to see more and more from GreatScott... but... come on, some people are playing really low ("he splits the videos because he wants more money...", and bla bla bla).
GreatScott, for me your channel is one of the best channels about electronics on youtube and far my favorite. Keep up the great work and try to ignore those negatives comments. Greetings from the neighbor Switzerland!
GreatScott! I don't get it. when your are using arduino then why are you using 555timer for PMV signal. you could have just program arduino for that . if any one gets that why is he using 555 please let me know.
it's PWM
good that you used a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
ElectroBOOM approves this channel
H bridge*
your welcome.
He only mentions that it could be possible to use rectified mains voltage but never implemented the FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
u liar
+Sharky
actually, he didn't :)
Patchoulino is correct, the driver is an H-bridge, not a bridge rectifier.
Never seen a lefty with such immaculate handwriting skills! nice work
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!!!,... wait wrong channel
RYU47376 I was thinking the same thing
RYU47376 it will be fun if he does the same thing with his German accent!
Sorry, but I don't get it. What is funny about it? Thx.
+Szoszaty ElectroBOOM
It's not single diode rectifier. It's FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER!
You and ElectroBOOM should collaborate sometime
That would be really nice... Funny and informative at the same time :D
PimDoos I tried building a Tesla coil using his circuit design didn't work so I'm just using fly back transformers.
Accent overload
I love flybacks
PimDoos no, he should colab with eevblog
I love how neat your circuit skematics are.
Wow, just wow! This should definitely be recognized as art! Such combination of precision, efficiency and pure knowledge is an absolute jaw dropper! Every electronics student and hobyist needs to see this and use it as inspiration! Keep up with amazing work mate, best of luck for the final touch!
Great Scott! I watched every video you made , until now , you are my favorite youtuber/teacher
keep it going I really like your art
Thank you very much
I wish I could have all the tools and electronics required for this awesome project. Excellent video!
I'm envious of your soldering skills. Practice indeed makes perfect.
The idea to use ducting was awesome. Fun video and project man. Kudos on the video. Thanks
Very professional work! You have in depth knowledge, and not afraid of complex circuits :) Good job!
I made it a bit small but with slayer exciter with power transistor at 12volts and got even bigger arcs than your previos version. Thanks for your help 😀
That topload thing really does give it that Tesla coil look. I love it.
You have all of the support from all of your trusty viewers so keep the great work and Stay Creative ;)
So far you are the best bug finder of electronic and electrical circuit I have ever seen.
you are doing such a great job with that project . i think that you and electroboom have the best videos with tesla coil.
man that is allot! I doubt anyone would build it because of the intense items and smarts you need to build it, But I find it very entertaining to watch someone build it :D
Zentimeter
Serious
What do you mean?
Germans have a hard time pronouncing the letters "ce" together without turning it into "ts"
That's why centimeter is actually Zentimeter in German
That's why there are words like Zertifikat (certificate) and Tendenz (tendency), frequenz (frequency), and Arroganz (arrogance)
Wow, that's dedication. Excellent video!
looks promising, will be looking forward to the 3rd part
Your Videos are so awesome :D
I always like to watch them when I go to bed
Hello, Scott, greetings from Litauen! I already built my SSTC using two IR2110 ics and IRFP460N mosfets. Noticable heating starts around 80VDC on the full bridge. High and low signals are generated using STM32F4 discovery board, TIM1, which has complemetary outputs and adjustable dead band. High and low side signals connected to driver IC's through optocouplers and current buffers. Discovery board is supplied with isolated 5V 0,7A supply and drivers are supplied through 7812 and 7805 regulators for each IC. Mains are regulated via variac and then rectified. Sec coil is around 40cm height and has approx 1100 turns and primary uses 10 turns. With 100VDC ( I was happy wth that for around 5 seconds and one MOSFET blew up :D ) I got around 15 cm discharges.
Really nice channel and videos ! Good luck with a Tesla coil!
Thanks for the feedback :-)
I always watch whole add in your video to support you
I am Impressed, You are a Genius
these videos are somehow satisfying
Wow i'm exited for part3
TRUELY GREAT SCOTT
I love so much your videos !
As an electrical engineering student, this makes me really happy :P Love your channel!
Thanks
have you graduated now ?
Update, update !
Yes part 2. Keep up the videos.
really like what you did with the air ducts
this project requires so much patience , waiting for part 3
I love how i watched this whole video as if i had any idea what he was even talking about
lol
@GreatScott! Add a deadtime between the high and low pwm signal this will make the IGBTs run way cooler.
yeeiy... was waiting for this. Thanks man
Really great work!
The Steve Ward Mini SSTC schematic is super reliable, powerful, efficient, and easy to build. I built a 10 in tesla coil using this circuit and get 10 in breakout. The mosfets I use did not even get warm even at 100% duty cycle which is crazy.
Cool circuit drawing
I only understand like 20% of what is said but it is still very interesting! Keep up the good work.
this is really enjoyable.
excellent project
I was waiting for this :)
Tesla coils do require some quite extensive setting up to maximise there resonate frequency, which improves miss matches and the overall efficiency of the coil. Solid state drivers for these can take what seems an eternity to design, tweak and reconfigure, but modulating (pulsing) the output driver helps keep the IGBT transistor's cooler. You could also add some sort of thermistor feedback circuit to one of the heatsinks which you could use to provide a thermal value to the Arduino which could be configured to reduce the output voltage as needed to stop thermal runaway- or worse case scenario, shut down and protect the IGBT's.
o yeah part 2 amazing JOB :-) :-) :-)
great work.
keep it up.
thank you for sharing.
I deeply envy this level of technical skill
You pronounced 'centimeters' the proper way now; awesome.
Thats all the stuff I was gonna say. And um, he said ⚡duty⚡. Super good video!
Good video.
as an experienced tesla coiler i have to say that you actually made a really good SSTC
Thanks😁
FOOOL BRIDGE
Who else doesnt understand shit what he talks but watches anyway because it's cool?? i cant be the only one...
Sohoraye Yaadhuv Not me. I've got the understanding part.
Sohoraye Yaadhuv comments like this are everywhere we dont give a damn if you dont understand what he is saying there is a lot of people who does so stop posting comments like this
Ahmet Asantas bruh youtube has millions of users commenting here wont help...shoo try somewhere else
I don't understand but I watch so I can learn. It's a fun way to try to understand.
I used to not understand, but watching this guy, bigclive, and Julian Illett (plus a couple of others) I now understand a lot of the basics.
you can mark center by making a line from opposite corners in an x shape
This is so cool!!
I love the NE555 timer chip. Been using it since it was invented by the Signetics Corporation in 1971.
Most SSTC's that use a full bridge have a capacitor in series with the primary, that may reduce the current and heating.
Also, check that black paint, many use carbon to produce the black colour,
Wow! Inefficient!
Hey! I am a huge fan of your work, learning quite a bit.
I gotta say though, when you work with larger stranded copper wire, an inline crimped barrel splice and heatshrink would be a much better way to go. Soldering has limitations...
The Zentimeters are back! 😁
Very nice project, congratulations. It would be nice to have the audio from the Tesla coil working, the "Bzzt Bzzt" sound is very interesting, maybe in part 3? Again, thank you for your videos.
wow very nice
looking forward to the last chapter
If you add Extra Coil and connect it to the Secondary Coil and then connect Top Load to the Extra Coil like Tesla recommends in patent 1119732, you should be able to get even larger sparks. Extra Coil aka Resonator acts as a magnifier. The Colorado Springs model of Tesla Coil is called Tesla Magnifying Transmitter.
You had an Arduino. You used a 555 timer. A second Arduino would have been more than enough and given its sheer power. Yet you used the venerable 555. Huge respect.
I love old Norwegian music :D
There was one in this vid :D
Amazing!
So much power for such a small arc.... OMG.... : (
It's the voltage that makes it jump across air, not the power.
I talked about the input not the output power , and what you say is right but that ist what happend here and it is wrong... A tesla coil have put out the highest voltage that it can and not current / His tesla coil is efficiently but it is more like a flyback transformer
it was not that much, he is using a bench power supply....
maybe if he used a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
oh ... i check your channel and you have more powerfull stuff :3
I'm sorry, I did not realise what you actually meant by power, some people think voltage and power is the same so I wanted to correct that. have a good night!
The IGBTs get hot because tdon is smaller then tdoff, 100ns in your case. that leads to cross condition. use a driver like a IR2184 which has a 500ns dead time built in.
Love this project! Curious, would you consider adding capacitors as low-pass filters to the Arduino's potentiometer analog inputs?
you absolutely need feedback for the tesla ciol because by simply being to close to it the resonant frequency changes
as for feedback you can use a current transformer or you can use an antenna
wonderful
I love it when Full Bridge inverters don't explode as soon as you connect the power supply
du kannst auch ein stück klebeband über der draht auf der unterseite der platine kleben und dan weiter unisolierten draht verwenden da so kein kurzschluss ensteht
Seriously man, that's some scary hardcore electronics... 😳😳😳
i dont understand anything about this video, but its just nice to watch for some reason
You're awesowe!!!
Wow. I didnt understand single world and i still wached full vid. (:
I use the same PowerSupply for my HHO devices
how can you work that clean? 6:46
That´s exactly what I thought when I tried replicating one of his projects, he makes it look very easy...
I'm glad that he used a
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
awesome
Can you make a video on how to make a emergency light that lights up when the power is thanks... Your videos and project are all awesome!!
GreatScott! Nice circuit, but coud you make a video on gate driver transformers?
I am sure it would be very helpful for a lot of us.
This your vids are Electronics Porn :) I enjoy them v much :)
What
Hi Scott,
Can you make a video about tesla's new battery and how you can charge it with mains voltage
There is no dead time in your driver, that could be the reason of heating. Switching IGBT in open circuit could breakdown the gate. Also, oversized topload ruined Q factor of Tesla coil, so you get smaller discharge length for the same power. Beside that your project looks nice, well done.
cooles video ;D mehr davon :P
those little purple arcs can be easily obtained from flyback transformers used in old tv sets, I thought those arcs will be like deadly green or something
I made this circuit and it works perfectly but I didn't added an arduino as an interrupter because I don't know how to use it so I want to know can I use another 555 timer ic as an interrupter
Hi! GreatScott! Can upload some footage about the coil when it has a corona discharge like arcing in the dark? I'd would really like it! :D
I really like your videos.
Could you make a video about your power supply (ps3020)?
Your videos are great 👍👍👍👍
Yes
Hey Scott, please make a video on "load cell".
Awesome project! I'm always struggling with using "Home improvement store" for "Baumarkt", Just Sounds too formal xD. Your secondary coil still looks like it could use some enlargement to boost the output ;)
Awesome video as always. Question for you though: do you keep all the awesome circuit diagrams you draw by hand for your vids? Just curious....
Love the projects. I eagerly await each one! One question I have had for a little while is this: how many times did your eyebrows have to grow back while playing with all this electricity? LOL!
None. But I got shocked twice.
FULL BRIDGE!!!
2 dislikes from edison Lovers !?
Great Scott! Great Work !!
LOVE From INDIA.
Jai hind bro me too indian
maybe you need a freewheeling diode across the igbts to avoid the voltage spikes, since the igbt does not have a inherent body diode like mosfets do; without the diode the voltage spikes can easily exceed the reverse breakdown voltage of the base-emitter junction, which has a much lower breakdown than the base-collector junction, and heat up the igbt or damage it