Can You Touch A Tesla Coil. Under normal conditions the air can be considered an insulator. Producing over 500000 volts this invention is for a true mad scientists.
Small ones are pretty harmless if they arc to you for a short time. A voltage applied between two isolated points does not. The Tesla coil creates extremely high voltage and high frequency sparks.
I found this mini tesla coil using the Slayer Exciter circuit.
It runs at high frequency so I can barely feel the. In other words its a transformer with a primary circuit and secondary circuits that can raise the electrical voltage to produce sparks. Small ones are pretty harmless if they arc to you for a short time. The Tesla coils control board is also dangerous while the bus capacitors are charged.
