Talk:Tesla coil construction

Add sections on DRSSTC and other solid state coil types

Wow, its really a shame what happens on wikipedia. An article takes a bit too long to be developed and all you "moderators" jump in and swallow it up before it even has time to develop. It was not all "speculative cruft" but however a framework for what could be a powerful article. There have been hundreds of hours of research performed on tesla coils, and simply because a large amount of it has been done by your typical electrical engineer / hobbyist, and thus some of it unpublished, you dismiss it as "cruft", simply because others and I had not yet cited several sources. You are acting like a high-school english teacher on a power-trip. I vote for this article to be allowed to be rebuilt. Topics include variations on power supplies: neon sign transformers, oil-burner ignition transformers, microwave transformers, pole transformers. Capacitors: MMC (this is WIDELY known in the tesla coil hobby - simply perform one search on google: "MMC site:pupman.com"), saltwater, plate. Spark Gaps: static, rotary, forced-air. Primary coils (and inductance calculations) spiral, helical, angled. Secondary coils, toploads (toroid, sphere). Other extremely detail-rich (that's what you want right??) topics including Solid State Tesla Coils, which encompas hundreds of designs from older vacuum tube coils to newer, microprocessor controlled transistor tesla coils. (See the above comment? They agree) I think that a vote should be taken for this article's reconstruction. --JonathonReinhart (talk) 21:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a replacement for the rest of the Internet. Please have a look at a hardback encyclopedia or two; you'll notice that they generally don't read like hobbyist magazines (as this article did).
 * This article was untouched for four months prior to its merging. Few would entertain the notion that its removal was premature for very long, on this evidence. Chris Cunningham (talk) 23:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)