Hi. I was going to design a better solid-state Tesla coil driver
But then I realized that there are commercial ones out there that I can just buy and put together, so I bought this one
Which is called a oneTesla ts made by a company called oneTesla?
I saw SmarterEveryDay put it together the other day
[Arc sounds]
So it should be a breeze to assemble. No offense Mr. Smarter. It's just that I'm
Music unknown for the subtitle author Szakembőr TV TMIAE
I'm thinking if I can put a reliable device together I can later modify to play my kind of smooth music
Music from Mehdi's old Tesla Coil
See the sound is made by the arcs. Like some kind of loud art speaker. I shall call it the Zeus speaker
According to stories Zeus used lightning bolts to play death metal music in his fancy parties
And that's all you need to know about mythology.
$h*t! the Zeus speaker name is already taken so maybe the Thunder speaker
$h*t!
If I survive this kit I'll give away four of these. Okay, let's see
Decent packaging look at this the coil and the top load. Where's the user manual?
Welcome to the world of high voltage
Mate, I've been there for a while. This is not a user manual
Stop download the PDF user manual. I can appreciate that with something potentially dangerous like this
They want to make sure you always have the latest manual. What is it wire? I should say. This is pretty good quality,
Now that's what I call a top-load!
Heatsink and secondary winding
Very nicely wound I'm pretty happy that I don't have to go through winding this again
Just remember that these wires are quite fragile
So if you scratch the surface you might break the wire quite fine too - I wonder how many turns
Let's see if I can count the number of turns in one cm these wires are so fine, I can hardly see them
I see nothing I have to take a close-up picture and count it there
I count around 92 turns per cm and the whole thing is around 16.7 cm
so roughly around
1500 turns so many components let's try to learn as much electronic as possible from this
This is what's called a printed circuit board or PCB that contains all the copper wiring required to connect the
Components together the white stuff printed in white ink is called
silkscreen and shows the location of the components on the board as you see the silkscreen shows an outline of the
Components as well as something called their reference designator
Which shows which component goes where like IC1 IC2 C A???
you will also find the same reference designators in the manual so that you can match your
Components to the silkscreen and know where it goes. Now the kits typically come with through-hole components
Which means that the pins of the
components have to go through the holes in the PCB like this and be soldered on the opposite side
The reason is that it's easier to solder the through-hole components the other type of components are surface mount components
Which are a little harder to solder at home
not a big deal for me because I'm I
Music unknown for the subtitle author Szakembőr TV TMIAE
I. I have experience in the field I've soldered them before so I can do it again, but for the non experienced
It's easier to have through-hole components
Just remember you should always follow the manual step-by-step and accurately
But if you want my suggestion I say you have to solder the smaller
Components first and then go to the chubby large ones because if you solder these long ones first
Then you won't be able to get to the board with your chubby fingers
Well the manual says I should start assembling their interrupter first. Let me explain
how it works. This device is made of two pieces one is the Tesla coil and it's driver and the other one is called an
interrupter. What the interrupter does is that it interrupts the power output to the Tesla coil with a certain frequency.
So depending on that frequency driving the Tesla coil you hear that sound coming from the Tesla coil now you load a music into your
Interrupter and it plays those frequencies to the Tesla coil and you can hear music. If you run a Tesla coil freely with no power
interruptions, it's typically very low noise like you have seen in my previous videos
The resonance frequency of a Tesla coil is way beyond human hearing it's in the order of
hundreds of kHz to MHz. You only hear a sound when you change the output power or interrupt it at a certain frequency
And that's what the interrupter does in this circuit. Okay, let's assemble the interrupter first
See this is one of those tough surface mount opponents
And they knew you wouldn't be able to put it on on your own and read it for you. Thanks oneTesla! :)
let's put on the
Resistors first see the value of the resistors is shown on them by colour-coding and the good thing about their manual is that they are
Showing you what colors you have to expect for a certain value. In case of capacitors and resistors
I don't solder them one by one
But I insert as many as I can and then solder them all in one shot see like this
I insert it from one side and bend the legs on the opposite side so it doesn't fall off
I solder and then cut the legs off
Make sure you assemble everything as shown on the silkscreen
What's this they send me an extra 1 k Ohm, it should be a hundred Ohm. I'll tell them. Fortunately,
I have extras in my arsenal
Of course it's no problem for me reading the colour codes on the resistors because I'm
Simply the Best
I mean I'm educated in the field I should be able to read these
For every other component other than resistors the value is typically written on them like these capacitors or ICs
Or diodes just to let you know boy some capacitors don't have polarity
But for the ones that have make sure you put the polarity right
One more important thing when you are putting these things together make sure the legs of the components are as short as possible
Extra long legs means extra impedance and antennas that can cause all sort of problem
Okay, I put on everything that doesn't immediately fall off and now I can solder their legs and cut them. Now to start soldering your
Board you need to soldering iron
{BLEEP,BLEPP}!
It's on
You usually need to heat your soldering iron to over 300 degrees Celsius
I usually put it at 480 because I'm tough like that. Now for a good soldering job
You should know that all the surfaces that the solder is supposed to adhere to
Must be heated to the melting point of the solder
So it's beneficial to leave your solder on those
Surfaces to heat them up first before you apply the solder. Now small surfaces like these heat up very quickly
But for thicker copper you have to be patient and let it heat up well and don't put too much solder, just enough
Now just take a side cutter and cut the extra pins short
Maybe I should hold those pins so they don't jump around too much
There. One set of components soldered. We can clean the flux later with some acetone
for other components that fall off, like the IC sockets put some solder on your iron and
then solder the opposing legs so that it won't fall off any more
and then you can solder the rest of the pins easily
Just make sure the direction of the IC sockets, as well as everything else matches the silkscreen
There I'm done, and here's the display
Unfortunately it doesn't come with batteries, but I have my power supply and I can power it up
There are 3V batteries each so 6V
Okay, here we are
F@*# Yeah!
Now to clean it you can put a little bit of acetone on the board and using a toothbrush, clean up the flux
And then dry it up
Blow-dry is probably better
all is left is some mechanical assembly.
I mean anyone can do mechanical engineering if you have done puzzles as a kid at least once.
I don't know why they even teach it in schools. Yeah!
hmm very nice
Ha ha the interrupter is done, and you all doubted me. I'm a professional kitSmith
Well the most important part of the kit remains
But this video has already been long enough just to promote a shirt. Get yours and other designs from the link below
But if you're a Middle Eastern I suggest you don't wear it in an airport. I already get enough strange looks in the streets
I'll continue the kit with more circuit analysis in the next video
Givveaway Time!
You have to put it together, but after I finish it successfully
I'm planning on four giveaways
Two to my patrons at patreon.com, and two to you the viewers so everyone has the opportunity to zap the shit out of themselves!
So wish me luck
And if you want to get oneTesla or tiny Tesla kit go to oneTesla.com and use the promotion code
ElectroBoom10 for 10% off and then you'll have your own awesome musical Tesla coil