Not a good start to saturday experiments!

Yesterday I had a not so great day starting out as far as experimenting goes. On friday one of my professors let me borrow his 15kva NST Transformer so that I could have more power. Then on saturday morning oh around 11am I hooked it up and the apparatus discharged one giant arc about 2.5 to 3 feet. There was a loud pop at the capacitor bank and the transformer went to crap. I did not compensate for the added voltage applied to the system.... A 150.00 lesson learned and the trust of a valued professor! Though the day became a little better when I received a little help from a friend Matt Gray. When we worked on tuning the spark gap and the primary capacitor bank. We were very successful and obtained at least 1.5 to 2 foot arcs also we could wirelessly light 40 watt florescent light bulbs at about 5 feet. Thanks Matt for your help.

Working Tesla Coil apparatus

Video 1 is of the working Tesla Coil number 4. I had other models that did not work out so great. I will be posting them in due time and let you know what went wrong but, for now this a video worth displaying.