Ive built my first Musical Tesla Coil!

Here is my completed Musical Double Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil (DRSSTC)
Ive spent a year in development with research and building the project.
It is capable of sending electrical arcs of 2.5M or more.

Here is the assembled capacitor bank which stores the energy released into the primary coil.

This is a 3D printed fan grill, the Mitsubishi logo is because this company makes the powerful transistors that drive this coil.

I was checking how everything fitted into place here.

Assembling the primary coil from 8mm copper pipe, this has to handle 1000A of current!

Inverter unit almost fully assembled with the busbars connecting the IGBT's.

Here is the MIDI interrupter that sends a signal over a fibre optic cable to the coil's driver board.
This connects to a USB port on the computer and plays MIDI tunes to modulate the coil and make it play music.

Here are the busbars that I CNC cut that connect the main DC bus together. These take 680VDC of electricity.

Below is the driver board i assembled that drives the large IGBT transistors :)

Here is a test clip of my first run, I will be uploading more videos shortly.

Feel free to fire away any questions!

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