Odds And Ends

The British baking summer has arrived so we decided to take the opportunity to work on the TC more in the boiling hot sun! Today mostly consisted of doing all the odds and ends jobs such as sanding down holes in the wood, cutting of the ends of exposed screws and sorting out the grounding wires. Here are a few shots. We also said goodbye to the old spark gap. It served us well but a new CNC cut out plastic disk will be arriving sometime next week. So tuned until then!

We even made some fans to keep cool using the old microwaves:

Next: New Spark Gap

Update Video

Here is a short video explaining are current progress of the coil and the status of your rewards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ_tJkT8_o4&feature=youtu.be

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Hard Day At Work

Wow its been a while. First of I would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who donated, a new update video will be released sometime today or tomorrow explaining exactly what we have spent the money on and the time line for when the coil will be done.

Recently we have been working hard on the coil. We have mounted all of the capacitors on a bank and have fitted a Variac onto the control board. However we hit a problem when the 15 amp Variac arrived. It was way to big to fit into the control board so the only option was to build a separate stand for it. This obviously takes much more work and money but there is a plus side as the stand can be moved independently from the board allowing the control board to be preset and hidden from view and control can be handed over just to the stand.

Here are a few pictures of the new constructs:

More updates will be out soon as well as a link to the update video.

Next: Update Video