Yayyy! An hour of futzing around with the Tesla, checking various thises and thatses, and I get a POWERFUL suspicion that my feedback is working against me.
So, I swap the feedback wires.
Bzap! Yayyy! A tiny little spark! I turn a know and... bzap! A spark with a different tone!
Oh yeah.
Mmmhmm.
Yeah, it's from a kit. Yeah, it's not so complex. But I am still very excited to be making high voltage.
Oh yeah. Heheheh.
It is, I think, resonating at about twice the frequency I expected (I'll tap the feedback and find out for sure), so I'll have to futz around with this.
With proper tuning, I should be able to get some good sparks, though!
And with bad tuning, hell, I still get sparks.
This is great! I needed a success right about now.