Original poster: "Liviu Vasiliu by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <teslina-at-yahoo-dot-com> I had some spare time these days and I finished my 3" table top tesla coil. The details and pics are at: http://www.geocities-dot-com/teslinasite/tttc Many thanks to Bert Hickman and Greg Hunter for their advices. I hope that the next TC will perform better. Liviu Vasiliu