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Originally Posted by old_coot88
Doesn't a true Tesla coil need the capacitance of a top load (big smooth sphere) for resonating the secondary? Or maybe 'tesla coil' is sometimes used in a colloquial sense.
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I don't think the type of thing you are talking about is technically a Tesla coil, but there is some overlap of terms. Tesla coils don't have iron cores. I think what you are talking about has adjustable vibrator contacts and a iron core step up transformer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_coil