Some buddies and I built a Tesla Coil for a physics class project. The huge homebrew capacitor bank made of snapple bottles, and a microwave flyback transformer

Some buddies and I built a Tesla Coil for a physics class project. The huge homebrew capacitor bank made of snapple bottles, and a microwave flyback transformer made the futzing with the base of it way more dangerous than the 20-40 kV arcs you got off the top. Turned out the thing worked pretty well as an AM radio jammer, too.