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$5 Micro Tesla Coil, 2,000V, 50Khz (CCFL) (2005)
- peter_d_sherman 6y ago>"$5 Micro Tesla Coil 2,000V, 50Khz Several surplus electronics companies sell very small hi-volt power supplies called "fluorescent lamp inverters" or CCFL drivers. In fact, these devices are actually solid-state continuous-wave "CW" Tesla Coils: they produce one or two kilo-volts at high frequency." PDS: Apparently, CCFL's -- would seem to be analogous to being the "Raspberry Pi" (low end, cheap, affordable, etc.) -- of Tesla Coils...
- wbeaty 6y agoHot 4mm arcs, cuts through thin plastic, or sets fires. Since 2005, hobbyists started making cigarette lighters from these. Then someone started actually marketing them. Then someone else came up with a switched, double-arc version with a little "X"-shaped discharge, "Plasmatic(tm)." Now everybody gotta get their own, apparently. Not five dollars though.