Building the Frame

To make the setup compact, safer and easy to move, you will need to build a sort of frame to hold all of the parts of the Tesla Coil. You can put it all on 1 sheet of wood or if you Tesla is quite big like mine, have two wooden sheets, one above the other.

My Frame, dont mind the wires there just to help mark out where everything is going to go.

You will also need a frame for the primary and the secondary to sit on. You can do this by sticking together four small planks of wood in an X shape. Make sure you cut the wood long enough to fit the right amount of turns on it as stated in the CAD program. If the turns are too close together it is a problem as the electricity ca arc from one turn to another ruining the efficiency completely! I have also stuck a tub lid to my frame so it can hold my secondary.

My frame to hold the two coils. Marked with pen every 2cm there will be a turn.

You may want to mark out on the wood where everything is going to go so you can make sure you have enough space for everything. Also make sure you use strong glue to hold you supports to the wood because you don't want your coil collapsing half way through construction. Try and weight test it first before putting everything else on it.

Gorilla glue works well!

Now you can move on to the next step, making the topload!