Does anyone have good plans for a vacuum tube tesla coil? I built the spark gap variety years ago and would now like to explore a vacuum tube version. I'm looking for something fairly small and manageable - not those massive designs with a gazillion volt potential . :eek: Thanks...

First result for "vacuum tesla coil" on google: http://www.pupman.com/msrp/vt_mr.html

Looks promising? Let me know :)

And be careful :p

Thanks Capuchin - but I've already seen that site. That coil, in fact, seems a little bit anemic and the site link appears to be partially dead.

Anyone else have any suggestions - would prefer to hear from someone who has actually built one and has some useful experience... Thanks

Hi jgj, I came across this page http://amasci.com/tesla/tesla.html

Looks very useful. I haven't looked at it very hard so I don't know if its what you need but lots of links there :)