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A Study on Design and Implementation of the Tesla Coil using Semiconductor Device

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  • Kim, Young-Sun (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Joongbu University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Jin (School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee, Ki-Sik (School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dankook University)
  • Received : 2016.07.28
  • Accepted : 2016.08.12
  • Published : 2016.09.01

Abstract

A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla coil can generate a long streamer with several million volts of electricity as a high voltage device. It is basically consists of a voltage transformer, high voltage capacitor, spark gap, primary coil, secondary coil and toroid. It is difficult to appear in the output size of the streamer is controlled by the spark gap. The general decision method of the length of streamer is to display the electric output in accordance with the design specifications in initial development plan. Design specifications and the electric output is determined by the application of facilities. In this paper the spark gap is replaced with periodic switching semiconductor device to control output voltage easily in order to apply overvoltage protective circuit due to a secondary coil and a performance test. In these days, their main use is for entertainment and educational displays of the museum, although small coils are still used as leak detectors for high vacuum systems.

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