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This product is a great kit for beginners as there are no small pieces that need a microscope to solder. the instructions are very clear and helpful (tells what side is pos/neg etc.) which a lot of kits Ive built did not have. Worked when I put it all together and am very pleased with it. I will say that you will need a power cord as one is not provided, and you'll want the full power it can handle otherwise it's not very loud if using the music option.

Built in about 10 minutes. I am an electric engineer, but this was great fun to build. It had no trouble lighting up a fluorescent bulb, black light tube, various neon bulbs. That's probably the coolest thing this can do. The brightness peaked at ~20 volts on my dc bench supply. While this is definitely for beginners, it does require knowledge to get it working and it's a fun project for all skill levels because it's $10. The music feature was pretty useless although it does work to demonstrate amplitude modulation, you can hear it clearly. The spark it emits is tiny but definitely visible. Again, coolest thing it does is light up bulbs.Some tips:- You need a DC bench supply with DC plug, or maybe two 9 volt batteries in series soldered to a switch and then to the board. Without a bench supply you'll need to get creative.- Use a lighter to burn the ends of the copper coil. But do not do so with the top of the lighter flame or the wire will melt. Run the wire close to where the fire is emitting from the lighter and run it 1-2 times through until it stops smoking.

Very easy to assemble, easy to follow instructions. But what you get is a paperweight. Doesn't work. You only get a red led light. Stay away!

This was missing components, and was packaged horribly. It looks like someone dumped items from a junk drawer into a ziploc back and sent it. It was extremely late on arrival also. Instructions that came with it are not legiable. Luckly the photos on the item page will suffice.

I built it and it works. Pretty cool machine.The instructions are just pictures of components being assembled which, while not hard, would be intimidating to someone who's new and I didn't see it explaining what side of the polarized components were positive so someone could make a mistake.I found the instructions on burning the paint off confusing so I just let my soldering iron touch it until I felt I burnt off whatever it was talking about.If the tesla coil turns on the blue light that means it's on correctly. If you don't see the plasma just put a piece of metal near it and it will light up. I found that if you won't light up that moving power coil further down fixes it but I have no idea if that genuinely is the problem.Really like it, wish I didn't need to buy a power supply separately though.

I am an Electronics Assembler and I have built other musical tesla coils like this one and this has to be the worst clone I have ever seen.The unit was fun to build and looks nice, but the audio rises and cuts out badly. I tried a couple different things, but I think the issue lies with how the secondary coil is wound or the blue LED having a higher voltage drop than the red LEDs on my other units.I rebuild the primary wiring numerous times in an attempt to account for these issues, but I could only slightly improve audio quality.The music side of this doesn't work enough to play music. I bought a similar kit from a different vendor and the music was crystal clear.Good instructions. Looks nice.If you want a tesla coil that is easy to build and almost plays "music", this is for you. If you want one that works for music as well, go with the original PLL TC.

It went together okay. Everything is clearly marked. The instructions say to keep the coil of wire .5 cm from coil. I made a coil spacer to enforce this after the wire got too close to the coil and started arcing. Didn't work. Made a new coil spacer at .5mm and got another wrap of the black wire and it worked just fine.Unit uses a fair amount of power. I had to break out my bench power supply to have enough current. Last night the end of the coil wire was striking an arc into the air but today I have to bring metal near it. It likely is a function of humidity. Last night got down to -10°F so it is dry.The coil has wire that is about 0.0055", easy to break, be careful.I haven't tried the music part yet. I'm not plugging it into my computers sound card, I look for some old computer speakers and try that and update.

The coil works but is a bit underwhelming but still super cool! Thank you!