2022 lecture
This talk was given in 2022 and was my first foray into public discussion.
The presentation was focused on Tesla coils and how the modern systems called ‘tesla coils’ today often have little in common with what Tesla was working on in the late 1800’s.
I took a step backwards and replicated a single-wire, single coil Tesla Coil and demonstrated how it behaves compared to the modern thin coils using many hundreds of turns of wire.
These coils are incredibly efficient, and in the chat I end up lighting a full florescent tube from over two feet away using less than 1/3rd of a watt of power.
Full presentation is available here: https://emediapress.com/shop/build-a-tesla-coil-the-way-tesla-built-them/