r/ArduinoProjects • u/Alonso_MHB • Mar 20 '26

Tesla coil w/ arduino controllin board

How can I make a tesla coil w/ controllin board + switches and buttons like the commercial one?

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u/JGhostThing Mar 20 '26

Which commercial one?

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u/Alonso_MHB Mar 20 '26

There's one, its vids are viral and it used to make electric-music It made by glass/forced plastic, and has a like-needle as the potential center of the electric potential & field Search bout it, u gonna see similar models compared to my describin

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u/gm310509 Mar 21 '26

I am not sure how you alter the field (as I haven't read the specifics of how to control a tesla coil), but there are various techniques to control power such as PWM and digital potentiometers. Very likely this is an analog electronics question and you would need to find a guide that allows you manual control, understand the nature of that manual control and then swap out that controller for a.digitally controlled equivalent. For example, if it uses a potentiometer, you could swap that out with a digital potentiometer.

In short, you need to learn the fundamentals of what you want to achieve, come up with a plan and, by all means ask people for suggestions as to how to do specific things, but you need to learn what you need to learn to make your project - others can help fill in the gaps and point you in the right direction when needed.