[Zach Armstrong] presents for your viewing pleasure a simple guide to building a solid-state Tesla coil. The design is based around a self-resonant setup using the UCC2742x gate driver IC, which is… ...

Small Tesla coil designed for use by medical profession, 1897 Visit Life and Legacy to get the full story behind the Tesla coil. View Tesla coil patent 454,622 .

He’s also collaborating with Tesla coil performance artist Austin Richards of Santa Barbara (a.k.a. “Dr. MegaVolt”) on a two-story, 120,000-watt sculpture equipped with a ladder for people ...

Tesla coils do the same thing, but with a much more dramatic change in voltage. First, they employ a pre-made high voltage iron core transformer to go from 120V wall current to roughly 10,000V.

How Tesla coils generate high-voltage electrical fields. (Image credit: by Ross Toro, Infographics Artist) How it works. The power source is hooked up to the primary coil.