An Electrical Engineer Tries and Fails to Build a Tesla Coil Vacuum Chamber
ElectroBOOM host Mehdi Sadaghdar wanted to use his Tesla coil inside a vacuum chamber, so he tried to build one himself. Unfortunately he melted his original compressor with a bath of hot glue, and was unable to create powerful enough suction with his alternatives.
I really like to run my Tesla Coil in vacuum, so let’s build a vacuum chamber, or at least try!






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