It has several advantages over the more common spark gap tesla coil. High voltagecurrent half bridge driver using ir2153. As an introduction to the world of solid state coiling, i have chosen to replicate steve wards class e tesla coil. Solidstate and sparkgap coils vary in how they drive the primary sides of the coil. Ignition coils are a type of induction transformer based on the tesla coil invented by nikola tesla in 1891. New sstc driver board integrated solidstate music tesla coil. Software on the pi allows for manual scripting of the power and frequency of the tesla coil bursts, a midi interface allows midi files to be played via alsa and via external usb midi sources. As mentioned, the secondary circuit is a coil of wire, one end of which is grounded, and the other end is connected to some kind of. The above is a stylized schematic of the onetesla driver. Discontinued w 20a zvs low voltage induction heating. Mounting a printed circuit board and winding the tesla coil primary will require you to develop some mechanical dexterity and an. Jan 10, 2017 how to make tesla coil at home wireless energy transmission diy homemade mini tesla coil duration. The 555 timer ic1 runs in its astable mode, producing a continuous pulse train. Mini sstc tesla coil diy kits wireless transmission light from a.
The greater input voltage and current increases, the greater output power, the longer discharge arc distance. Zero voltage switching tesla coil flyback driver board with high power output up to w. High voltage generator tesla coil driver board 12 30v 60. This teslacoil has etched windings on a print circuit board. It is used to produce highvoltage, lowcurrent, high frequency alternatingcurrent electricity. This board takes i2c signals from the raspberry pi and converts them to the accuratly timed pulses of radio frequency needed by the tesla coil. Zvs tesla low voltage induction heating flyback driver heater 20a w 1248v.
Buy this driver board buyers only need to own the primary coil secondary coil linear 12v1a dc power supply and 25v150v ac dc 40v200v power supply can be. It easily drives igbt modules at 100khz, while still maintaining the drive waveform undistorted agilent u1604b blue waveform. Pizero i2c driver board extreme electronics tesla coils. A flyback drive circuit, which is used to drive the ignition coil, as did the zero voltage switching, masses of fans called them zvs circuit. At one point in time, tesla coils were actually used for things like wireless telegraphy and electrotherapy, but as technology advanced, they shifted to a slightly more enjoyable purposeentertainment. Sstc integrated driver board product integrated solidstate tesla coil 1pcsdescription optimized part of the fullbridge routing to a large area of copper, optimized feedback drive part of the line.
A tesla coil controller that uses the capabilities of a raspberry pi zero to drive a tesla coil via i2c and to play music from midi files. High voltage generator tesla coil driver board 12 30v 60 300w. General discussion about tesla, evs, clean tech and more. The driver board is simple and easy to use, which solves the. Zvs tesla coil drive power supply driver board,dc 15a20a. High current and high voltage igbts are used to serve high power requirements. This is the detail of how to design a good solid state coil driver. New tesla coil driver board finished music tesla coil solid. Adopts a customized feedback magnetic ring the feedback magnetic ring will be supplied with the driver. It is actually a white pvc pipe covered by a lot of enameled wire. This mini tesla coil circuit is very simple and just works with a help of 9v battery and very few commonly available electronic components, which makes it is very easy to build fingers crossed.
How to make tesla coil at home wireless energy transmission diy homemade mini tesla coil duration. How to build a solid state tesla coil sstc 2 by loneoceans labs. The gating continue reading pizero i2c driver board. Solid state coil driver theory richies tesla coil web page. Integrated drsstc driver board,music tesla coil, only the driver board. Aug 9, 2018 zvs tesla coil driver board, marx generator, jacobs ladder, induction heating. Checking that your gate drive transformer buzzes when provided with input is a quick way to test that your logic components are working properly. The most common method for switching power into the resonator is a halfbridge or fullbridge of transistors typically mosfets or igbts for their high power capabilities. The given circuit is, in fact, a little slayer exciter one simple solidstate alternative of the tesla coil. The coils l2 and l1 had to be tweaked to ensure optimum performance. Classic drsstc finished driver board, single totem output, can push igbt tube full bridge dual resonant tesla coil artificial lightning. How to use zvs driver to power tesla coils primary. You may build this circuit in a strip board, veroboard, printed circuit board, point to.
How to conduct a low voltage driver board test for tinytesla in this video, we show how to perform a low power test on your tinytesla driver board. In a perfectly designed tesla coil, when the secondary coil reaches its maximum charge, the whole process should start over again and the device should become self. My tesla coil driver is a single resonant solid state driver. My primary requirement for the control circuit was that it shall lock on to the resonant frequency of the secondary coil. A optical output was added to use the interrupter with a standard drsstc driver. Zero voltage switching tesla coil flyback driver for sgtc. The picture opposite shows my solid state driver board connected to the tesla coil primary winding. Here is my take on steve wards universal drsstc driver 2 which i have named ud2. Drsstc driver tesla coil driver board 12v dc for double.
Drsstc driver tesla coil driver board input 12v dc for double resonant solid state tesla coil description. Tesla s original circuits as well as most modern coils use a simple spark gap to excite oscillations in the tuned transformer. The outputs on pins 12 and are 180 degrees out of phase with each other, and drive the gates of mosfets q1 and q2, which, in turn, drive the primary of transformer t1. It takes its input from a current transformer in the primary coil circuit this signal is amplified, gated by the microprocessor and fed to the bridge gate drive. Sstc integrated driver board product integrated solid. The voltage rise is not given by the turns ratio like in a standard transformer, but is proportional to the rate of change of current in the primary circuit. Connect a high voltage rectifier diode to one leg of the output of the transformer, and put your spark gap between the diode and the black wires, and then put your capacitor and primary coil in series across the spark gap. Because of its big power, low heat, simple and reliable by fans are widely used in the drive spark gap tesla coil sgtc and jacob, ladders, marx generator, etc. The drive needs 1216v, 1 a, the full bridge needs 48311v, 150v is recommended. Pizero i2c driver board this board takes i2c signals from the raspberry pi and converts them to the accuratly timed pulses of radio frequency needed by the tesla coil. One of the best portable tesla coils out there is this mini acrylic version by daniel eindhoven, aka teslacommander. It also seems accurate to me to call it a continuous wave type driver, as it drives the primary with a continuous ac voltage although not a clean sine wave.
Dc 1230v zvs tesla coil driver board module marx generator h voltage power supply, find complete details about dc 1230v zvs tesla coil driver board module marx generator h voltage power supply,high quality,china suppliers,cheap from switching power supply supplier or. Minisstc integrated drive plate integrated tesla coil integrated. The design was very simple, yet he seemed to have achieved good results, so i thought it would be a good first solid state coil. Diy mini tesla coil kit 15w mini music tesla coil plasma speaker tesla wireless transmission dc 1524v dingdong store tesla a 3. Assuming that the primary coil would act as a pull up resistor, i expected to see ov while the ignition module car or irf740 my coil driver circuit is closed, and 12v when it is open. The greater input voltage and current increases, the greater output power, the longer discharge arc. Use fr4 top double glass fiber board production board size is 11 cm long, 8 cm wide. Zvs induction heating board module 2500w flyback driver.
Frankly, im not a tesla coil guru, but i was pretty happy with the end result even though it wasnt quite finished. The circuit diagram of mini tesla coil project given below is very simple. Solid state tesla coils, in their earlier stage see my old projects were basically just a power amplifier driving a secondary coil at resonance. Zvs tesla coil driver board, marx generator, jacobs ladder. Vieur music tesla coil 20cm solid state tesla coi coil generator ignition diy kit driver board lightning. Class e solid state tesla coil bens science wonderland. One of the simplest ways to make a battery powered high voltage power supply is to use a common car ignition coil. A tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor nikola tesla in 1891. This kit is designed for indcution heating to heat or melt the metal. I also have your resistor and capacitor snubber circuit in parallel with the coil in my diy driver to try to prevent damage to the mosfet. In this video, i go over the construction of the circuit board used to drive my slayer exciter tesla coil. The main component in this circuit is the secondary coil golden colour, which is made by winding a magnetic wire enamelled around a cylindrical object any non conductive object will work.
So let us understand how it works and learn how to build it. There are many possible configurations for the solid state driver, but the following sections describe the behaviour of a simple halfbridge switching arrangement feeding. Tesla coil desktoplevel integrated solidstate music tesla coil finished produc. As mentioned, the secondary circuit is a coil of wire, one end of which is grounded, and the other end is connected to some kind of topload metallic volume at the top of the tube.
New tesla coil driver board finished music tesla coil solid state tesla. Now split into two tesla coils running from a single pi. Aside from that, while i did get first results, there is a lot of improving to do. Designed staccato pcb as the old layout used in my vttc i was on a vero board.
Icstation zero voltage switching zvs tesla coil flyback driver board with high power output up to 300w, support dc1230v input and current should be over 10a. Unlike a conventional dampedwave tesla coil, the solid state tesla coil is capable of producing considerable amounts of sustained rf power. Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits tesla used these circuits to conduct innovative experiments. Sstc integrated driver board product integrated solidstate. The pcb measures 6 x 4 and is mounted directly on top of a large aluminium heatsink for cooling the power semiconductors. Drsstc driver board dual resonant tesla coil artificial lightning.
Igbt based half bridge board has been designed for multiple applications, like induction heater driver, tesla coil driver, dcdc converters, smps etc. One side is connected to ground, high voltage comes through the other side. A tesla coil is a radio frequency oscillator that drives an aircore doubletuned resonant transformer to produce high voltages at low currents. This driver will drive the high voltage power supply, but will not run the tesla coil directly. A solid state tesla coil is made by four main parts. Minmium 12v 5a, maxmium 15v 15a operating frequency. Because of its big power, low heat, simple and reliable by fans are widely used in the drive spark gap tesla coil. If you want to build a solid state tesla coil, thats a whole different project and i dont believe it can be done just with this driver. The bottom is too large current in all open the window to add tin processing, overload ability is stronger. Integrated drsstc driver board,music tesla coil, only the driver. Sainsmart zero voltage switching tesla coil flyback driver for sgtc. The current transformer steps down the primary current to a safe level to use on the logic section of the board. We do this by sensing the primary current with a current transformer t.
Jul 10, 2014 in a perfectly designed tesla coil, when the secondary coil reaches its maximum charge, the whole process should start over again and the device should become selfsustaining. New tesla coil driver board finished music tesla coil. Whats even more entertaining than using a tesla coil. You will need to source it at least 10 a at input current for safety concern. Simply put, a normal solid state tesla coil sstc is simply a power amplifier driving a primary coil at the resonant frequency of the secondary coil. Drsstc driver guide onetesla diy tesla coil kits home page. It assumes that you have read the previous section about the load presented by a tesla coil to the driver. Sstc integrated drive board finished solid state tesla coil of the first tc. The tesla circuit consists of a pulse generator, a driver circuit, and a highvoltage transformer. Zvs tesla coil marx generator dc 12v 30v 20a w high. The basic purpose of a drsstc driver is to generate the drive signals for the inverter, synchronized with the zero crossings of the primary current. There are a handful number of people who have tried this project already and have failed to obtain the result. The following tiny tesla coil circuit requires a few components and demands only average skills to build it from scratch.
Input voltage 12v5a, the high voltage discharge arc distance is about 12cm. Firstly, the base of the secondary became very hot due to the high rms current flowing through the fine wire. Banggood 12v 24v zvs tesla coil flyback driver generator. High voltage generator tesla coil driver board 12 30v 60 300w zvs 10a 30 50khz discharge flyback generate long arc module enjoy free shipping worldwide. For clarity, it omits the decoupling capacitors, indicator leds, and power supplies. Recommended use of ac voltage regulator, power does not need a lot, 500w. Thats how you would wire a zvs driver to a tesla coil.
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