Wiring in the Spark Gap

Had a spare hour today to do a bit of wiring on the tesla. I'm glad I put a bit of thought into the design of the main base unit as access will always be needed for tweaks and modifications. Access to the main base can be achieved by removing any of the side panels.

 For this job I removed the right hand side panel which gave me easy access to the safety gap end of the Terry filter. I needed to connect the left and right terminals to the left and right terminals on the synchronous spark gap module situated above on the next level.

I had previously drilled the 2 6mm holes for the passage of these wires from one level to the next so it was just a matter of making up the two wires and then threading them through.

The wire used is high quality GTO (Gas tube only) wire rated at 15,000V. This wire was sourced from Teslastuff.com and ordered from their eBay store. Click here if you want to take a look at the store.

I "sealed" the ends of the wires by coating in solder before fitting. This prevents repeated clamping from damaging the ends of the wires.

I tried to keep the wires reasonably short so they didn't pass to close to other components. This type of wire is almost all insulation but it won't do any harm to try to keep separation to a maximum.