(This is a
work in progress and I only have about 41 sites but I have reviewed them all
and included a picture. There are many more to come and I hope that this
will be an easier way to sort through the many sites. email me if you
want your site on here sooner.)
Tesla and HV links 2007
Interest score. This is my personal rating for Tesla
and related HV stuff.
* don't bother,
** of interest to some,
*** reasonable site,
**** lot of good stuff,
***** Best sites
Google PageRank
scores are from 0 to 10 and give an idea of popularity according to a
complex formula. My index page PageRank is 5 for comparison.
Mikes Electric Stuff (PageRank
5)
***** Mike has a focus on vacuum tubes and glassware but there is a huge amount of
stuff in the HV, Tesla, laser and electronic line. He has the best Marx
generator (1m sparks) around and some great high speed video stuff. You can
get lost here for hours. I've recently enjoyed the ferrofluid and violet
laser from a PS3 articles
Powerlabs
(PageRank 5) **** Sam Barros' page is a huge site as well
running since 2000. Highlights for me are his railgun,
ignition coil and flyback drivers but there is a range of other HV, pulse
power, laser, liquid nitrogen, chemistry and pyrotechnic stuff.
Some limited Tesla stuff. Sam is not good at keeping his word about exchanging links.
He also states on each page that people like me should be fined $50,000 for using his
photo here. Draw your own conclusions. Sam has a high public profile and has recently graduated.
1.4 megahits since 2000.
Bill Beaty's site
(PageRank 4) **** Contains a
large number (?500 pages) of diverse articles and links about a
variety of science stuff including Tesla. It is not that helpful if you are
looking for contemporary Tesla coil information. It is a non-photo
site that has been up for some 13 years and has a wide but often fringe
science scope. This
site has about 5 times the traffic that mine does (major size envy here).
Teslamania of Bert Hickman.
(PageRank 4) **** Bert is a coinshrinker extraordinaire and also produces fabulous Lichtenberg
figures. Lots of details and examples. Some Tesla stuff and interesting spark stuff. 1.2 megahits
since 1999.
Dr
Antonio C M de Queiroz
(PageRank 4) ***** The definitive electrostatic site
with plenty of construction detail and millions of links. Also lots of Tesla simulation stuff.
Jeff
Beharry's Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum
(PageRank 4) ***** The definitive
historical HV and Tesla site. Spend a few minutes/days/years browsing the
45,000 files there. Lots of pics videos and construction of all sorts of
historical stuff.
Greg's
Garage Tesla site (PageRank 0) *****
This is a great site and taught me a lot
about NST's, ignition coils, MOT's, ballasting, ARSG's etc. My angle grinder
spark gap is based on his. Lots of interesting approaches eg Marx-Tesla.
Pictures and schematics are clear and extensive. Not a bad place for
beginners to start with.
Rapp Instruments (PageRank
4) **** This site is
in German but each of the projects are so well presented and of display
quality and cover a range of high voltage stuff from induction coils, Marx
generators, Tesla coils including OLTC's and VTTC's as well as x-ray stuff,
cloud chambers, high speed photography and even high speed x-ray
photography. Pics of gases at different pressures. Sadly no English
version.
Paul Nylands "Bugman"
(PageRank 5) ***** A
diverse and extensive site with some TC, HV, Laser and ferrofluid stuff.
Also lots of the most amazing maths, physics and fractal simulations,
graphics and .. . bugs. About 1 bzillion links to all sorts of stuff.
Richie
Burnett
(PageRank 3) ***** This is the
technical site
that people refer to to explain stuff about TC's. A wealth of clearly
presented theory and practical stuff. Nice 4MHz coil.
Stevehv (PageRank 3) *****
Steve Wards main site. With his pioneering DRSSTC stuff (12 foot sparks).
The musical DRSSTC's were popular on the net. Extensive Tesla
construction details and theory. Also lots of other HV stuff including with
CW / Marx generators, Coinshrinking with MO caps etc.
Deepfriedneon
(PageRank 3) ****
Steve Bell's UK page has nice simple beginners Tesla stuff with good
explanations and graphics. I often refer beginners here.
Extremeelectronics
(PageRank 3) *****
Derek Woodroffe's UK page. I count something like 17 SSTC's here and
numerous variations. Lots of info and pics. Includes claim to
worlds smallest DRSSTC. Technical rather than beginners. Lots of
interesting stuff from the Nottingham Teslathon.
Scopeboy
(PageRank 4) ***** Steve Connor's site
from the UK. Lots of solid state Tesla coiling with detailed technical info.
One of the musical DRSSTC pioneers.
Bart
Anderson
(PageRank 4) ***** Bart's Classic
Tesla site has lots of great info on making coils. The JavaTC V11.6 is THE
best TC simulation program. Also for transformers, MMC's and spark gaps.
Greg Peters (PageRank 0)
*** An Aussie site a few years old now but with 12 foot
sparks from 9kVA spark gap coil. Shows a secondary winding burning up.
121 cap MMC and 240V pole pig. Neat control box setup. Pics are
limited.
Jim Lux
(PageRank 4) *** Jim is someone who "knows" HV (unlike mere mortals like myself)
. Sadly his HV text didn't get finished but what is there is very
interesting stuff and worth a look. Not a lot of Tesla stuff.
Interesting tornado special effects from his day job.
HVguy.com
(PageRank 0) **** Aaron and Justins big site is mostly down having a refit with
only a few pics available. Look out for it when it returns though. Some nice
Tesla, HV and Laser stuff. 15 foot sparks from their TC.
Jochen's High voltage page (PageRank
4)
**** This is mostly a HV site with some practical stuff about flybacks and
ignition coils but has interesting vacuum and radioactivity sections.
Mike
Strube (PageRank 0) *** A MOT powered coil with 40 shots of sparks and
streamers. Reasonable contruction detail.
Extreme_skier
(PageRank 4) * Tristan Stewarts site. Good Tesla stuff and a nice can
crushing article. He has some interesting stuff but his host is Tripod and
is FULL of popups and unpleasant stuff some of which gets past my blockers.
Not recommended for this reason. It's been inactive since ?2001.
Gravitymagnet
(PageRank 0) * An alternative site from a disgruntled
?engineer who talks about
"Orgone " energy. I couldn't find pics of any completed Tesla coils. There
is some coin shrinking but the efficiency is poor. He says the
smallest coin in the pic needed 16kJ. Not recommended
Peter
Reid (PageRank 3) **** An Aussie coiler who has a 10kVA 8-MOT supply
and claims 4m (12 foot) sparks . Nice construction details of the
various components and lots of spark pics. I can't see a shot that
clearly shows the spark 4 times the secondary length though but impressive
power never the less. Just the thing to wake up suburbia.
Thedatastream
(PageRank 2) ***
James Pawson's UK site with useful SSTC and GDT info.
Altair
(PageRank 5) *** Spark gap coils up to 50 inches. Some very clear diagrams. Some
designs with conical primary and NST filters a bit dated. His TC graphic
shown seems to be remarkably popular on Google images.
Electronika
(PageRank
0) ***
David from Czech Republic with a number of VTTC's. No English version.
Area31
(PageRank 2) ***
Robert W. Stephens' commercial maker of Tesla coils and other H.V.
museum/educational display devices. Some nicely performing twin coils.
Uses creepage discs on some of his coils. Has a construction gantry to
assemble his big coils. Not much construction detail and not active
since 1999.
RSCoppersmith
(PageRank 0) ***
Scott's older site on Hot-Streamer.com with his various coil details.
His twins shown here over-coupled and out of phase.
Madgyver
(Google PageRank 3)
** Some railgun stuff and more
to come in this startup site. In German.
Rayer (PageRank
3) ***
A Czech site in English with Various spark gap TC's, VTTC's and SSTC's
John
Dyer (Google PageRank 3)
** Some
reasonable spark pictures and coil details.
Matthias
Kallenberger (PageRank 2) ***
A startup site in German but has the most amazing homemade HV transformers
up to 400 kV used for Jacobs ladders. Serious stuff firing this in a
basement. Also a 3 phase Jacobs ladder and some Tesla stuff.
Scott
Bogard (PageRank 0) *** A has a 4
MOT coil and a few other projects including a plasma ball. Also plays
a restored trumpet to his Venus flytrap...
Omegalabs
(PageRank 1) ** Some Tesla coils and
coilguns in this Hungarian (?) site. Also some pulse cap experiments
and sodium generation.
Henning
Umland
(PageRank 3) *** Some excellent stuff
on CW multipliers for x-ray stuff. In English
Masque
Teatro
(PageRank 2) *** An Italian artistic
performance site with a dark steampunk theme. Check out the
video.
Commercial sites
Resonance
research (PageRank 5) *** D C
Cox's company that provides a variety of Tesla coils and other equipment
particularly for science museum's.
kVA
Effects
(PageRank 4) *** Jeff Parisse's
company that provides Tesla and HV effects. Lots of dramatic shows and
stunts with examples of various media performances. Bill Wysock is in
this group. Has just had coils featured on Broadway in Young Frankenstein.
Look out for the huge twin Tesla coils at the Beijing Olympics.
MGVolt
(PageRank 4) ***
professional TC shows in Thailand with shots of impressively performing
coils.
Lighning on demand - Greg Leyh ***
(PageRank 5) Built the
Electrum and given $6 million or so will build the worlds biggest by far 122
feet tall running 8 MW.
Recently did a small scale 1:10 solid state version.
HVFX
(PageRank 5) **** A UK commercial site with a variety of Tesla effects and
dramatic sitting-on-a-TC type stunts. Lots of examples of public shows and
media appearances in their portfolio section. I particularly like the
TC in an all weather inflatable sphere.
Zeusaphone
(PageRank 0) * Steve Wards coming
commercialization of the hugely successful "Singing Tesla coil at Duckon".
Steve is one of the solid state pioneers with the DRSSTC. Go to
Stevehv for the main site. See the
video from Discovery Channel, Daily Planet
here.
Teslacoil.net
(PageRank 3) **** A US commercial site
with a variety of Tesla coils for sale including DRSSTC's. Includes a nice
musical guitar DRSSTC using a Guitar Hero type setup for $5000. Nice stuff
but criticisms include his wildly inflated TC voltages. Lifetime guarantee
on the electronics.
FotoSearch
A stock photo and video search site with around 70 Tesla related
videos for sale. A number are based on TC's from KVA effects.
Societies
Tesla
Memorial Society of New York (PageRank 6)
*** A large active esla related group from New York. Sign the
petition to get a
Tesla St in Las Vegas! Now running for 28 years it has a lot of Tesla
information but nothing on Telsa coiling and does contain some perpetuated
inaccuracies. 790,000 visits
Tesla Forum of
Western Australia(PageRank
3) *** A large and active
Aussie group promoting Tesla's legacy. Managed to be under my radar in
my home state despite me knowing the chairman. Did a lot for
Tesla's 150th with a convention with international speakers, the Tesla Play
with Frank Tabbita, bust of Tesla and academic Tesla medals. One of the more
active Tesla groups worldwide.
Tesla museum
Belgrade (PageRank 6) *** Visited
Perth Western Australia 2006
Tesla Society (Switzerland) (PageRank
4) ***
NTesla.Org
(PageRank 5) ** A school group that
sells t-shirts to pay for busts of Tesla to be donated to Universities.
They've donated 19 so far.
Forums
These are yet to be sorted........
Tesla - Master of Lightning
(PageRank 6)
** Scripts from PBS TV program.
TFC books on
Tesla
Tesla Coil Mailing List Archives Contains a wealth of information over nearly 10 years. A lot of cutting edge
Tesla stuff such as DRSSTC modelling and TC optimisation programs.
Richard
Hull's Coils big sparks from a magnifier and a conventional coil.
Spark
length vs. voltage For use of an equation to estimate voltage of a
DC spark. Note that this does NOT apply to Tesla coils due to spark growth
at high frequency. It does apply to single shots though.
Predicted maximum
spark length for Tesla coils by John Freau's formula.
Naphthenic
transformer oil
Cornel Dubilier
capacitors for MMC's.
Tufnol
high pressure laminate.
FANTC
Tesla coil construction calculator.
Java TC 9.1
Tesla coil construction calculator.
Ballasting:
see Ritchie Burnett's site.
Wire ratings
The various wire rating types.
Enameled wire
The high temperature wire used in the 18 inch coil.
10 - 120 MV
Lightning voltages.
flash/bang
anti terrorist stuff with exploding aluminium powder.
Lifters by Naudin including an
excellent registry of
lifters from around the world. He has a lot of pseudoscienctific beliefs
though. Good section on
HV supplies.
HV Truck
James' model truck. The UK's (small) answer to the Tesla on a car
setup.
Sam's Laser FAQ
(Google PageRank 6) A wealth of laser info in a huge non-graphic site.
http://www.scitech.org.au/
Scitech, a
local science discovery centre which includes Tesla and HV demos.
high
school Our local high school web site.
Gravity Discovery Center
People having fun doing this sort of stuff
Tesla Links on this page about other peoples
coils and Tesla stuff (compiled 2007) include:
For Beginners construction
My top 10 Tesla related sitesHistorical coils
Commercial Tesla companies
Tesla Societies
Tesla events (Teslathons etc)
Tesla in Fiction
Tesla Alternative
Tesla Books
Tesla coilers
Solid State Tesla coil sites (DRSSTC etc)
Valve Tesla coil sites (VTTC)
Links to other big Links eg 4HV Tesla coils
