Tesla coil?

Hello,

I'm bit curious about Tesla coil..does the Tesla coil have any practical use, apart from producing powerful sparcs?

Thanks,

--Dusan

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Dusan Sukovic
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Generally, no. They are used in some schools for teaching various principles. They are occasionally used as a part of research projects (some of which are sort of goofy). Tesla's dream was to transmit electrical energy without wires. That's done every day, but does not energize our homes yet.

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Charles Schuler

In the early days of television (pre-flyback transformers), small Tesla coils were used to produce the high voltages needed by the CRT.

Other applications needing an inexpensive source of high voltage (at low current) have used Tesla coils as well, however, for the most part the larger coils are usually used for gee whiz demonstrations in schools and museums and testing.

Harry C.

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hhc314

Tesla coils are sometimes used where their are experiments with RF effects and high voltage with specific types of chemical reactions, and etc. There are various scientific applications for them, but these are not so common.

Most of the time, they are used for demonstrating the principle of an RF air core type transformer, and the generation of an extreme high voltage.

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Jerry G.

Test your nerves?....

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..yes that is a man in a metal suit with 20 foot lightening bolts coming out of his "head".

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CWatters

I think they have been used in particle accellerators. The same kind of uses you might have for a Van Degraf generator. Maybe make your own atom smasher.

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worldcitizen

A minor one - producing sparks inside various lamps and lightbulbs and tubes, to check for what kind of gas (or vacuum) is in them. Usually one familiar with this can recognize spark/corona shapes/patterns, brightness and color and does not need a spectroscope.

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Also entertainment value... Hold a fluorescent lamp or a neon lamp and it glows from a Tesla coil a few feet away. Solid state ones that oscillate continuously make these things glow more brightly.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

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Don Klipstein

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