Original poster: "patrick herd" <zl2uph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Devon,
Depending on where you are the first thing on this
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pterren/Misc.htm page may help you. It Drops
the mains down to 50Volts ac (classed as extra low voltage in most places)
and then steps it up again. If you still want to use a car battery two
ignition coils fed from an oscillator would run a micro coil from a car
battery nicely.
Hope tthis is some help.
Pat
>
>I'm trying to find out how I can go about making a small coil that
>could run off one or two car batteries. Has anyone done this? I
>would guess I need an inverter to go from DC>AC, but that's fine.
>Just wondering if anyone has any plans made up for this already,
>which I could look at.
>
>This is for a university project which has to be demonstrated but,
>they want us to have CSA approval of anything plugged into the wall.
> That means that I will probably not be able to make a regular
>style coil running off of wall power.
>
>I've searched around the net a bit but haven't found a whole lot of
>information on this subject, and not much on the list archives that
>I could find.
>
>Thanks,
>Devon.
>