Nottingham Gaussfest, Teslathons

Gaussfest Teslathon 2006


Nottingham Gaussfest 2006
a UK Teslathon exibiting a collection of home made tesla coils
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My (Derek Woodroffe)
Small DRSSTC
My SSTC with a
Strontium Nitrate
covered breakout
My SSTC with a
Sodium Cloride
covered breakout
My Brick OLTC


Untill a fuse "went"
Completly, ends &
glass envelope
"disappeared"
Melvin Bennetts
Compact DRSSTC
Not bad sparks
for the first time
on Full Mains.
Martin Dale
Tests his new
Balast & Pole Pig


Martins Rotary, Built at
03:00AM before the GF 


Another Balast test
with a jacobs ladder
Martins Coil Gave some
good arcs
All mostly in the
right direction

With Minor damage
Easily repaired with
the loss of 6 turns
to the secondary.
And the coil lived
again with
Excelent
6'-7' arcs
All Mostly in the
Wrong Direction.

A 10 second
exposure, note a total
lack of arcs to the earthed rod.
Mark Hales brought a
large selection of gas
filled tubes
and decorative
Flowers

Roses


Skulls
Flamingos
Figurines

And a couple of
Plasma Globes


Of different sizes
Mike Harrison
brought his high speed camera
and his "destructotron"
Cap bank.

First attempt at
breaking a pint glass
Second attempt
The third attempt
was successfull.
Mike captured this and
many other "events" on his
high speed camera.
Take a look here

Philip Strauss brought
a SGTC

Which was very nicely
constructed
with every peice
polished!!
and a pretty good
performer too.


The Group Photo of
visitors and coilers.