My first TC was ‘discovered’ while running a spark spectroscopy project (above) in high school 40 years ago. This used about 10 kV from multivibrator excited dual ignition coils through 10 turns of an air cored radio coil to quench it. The other end of the 130 turn coil developed a corona visible in the dark spectroscopy room. It was a truly amazing sight.
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