Safety

Now that you have worked out all the necessary math and you have bought all the electronic part that should now match the math and create a efficient Tesla, its time to talk about safety!

Now we all know that electric fences have high voltage on and if you touched it it could kill you. But its not the voltage that kills you, its the current or amperage. But its the volts that deliver the amps. These transformers have a very high voltage but a very low current, only a few tenths of an amp. All of these transformer have the ability to kill you but that is only if you have a situation like both hands on the terminals, non rubber soles on your shoes and in a well grounded floor. If you just touched it with your finger tip with rubber soles on your shoes than you will feel pain but it wont do much damage.

The thing is that neither of them two situations should occur as the power should always be UNPLUGGED before going in to service it.  The power from the caps should be drained by the resistors (go into more detail later) so there should be no power left in the unit. Either way, always work with rubber gloves, rubber soles and make sure it is unplugged. The electricity can get through the rubber as it is at a very high voltage but it will slow it down a lot. Always check with a multimeter or other device to see if there is a live current. Finally once unplugged, leave the circuit for 30 - 60 seconds so the caps have time to bleed out. If you follow all this and be careful in everything you do you should be quite safe from any danger. 

But dont just take my word for it! Look online for more in depth safety tips like the one hand in pocket rule. Also look up more about grounding as I have not go over that topic. If all the part that need grounding are properly grounded then it will be safer to service.

Ok I think thats all that I can say about safety, now time to move on to finally building this thing!