Toy Tesla coils and overpowered readers

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Hi all,

I’ve recently gotten myself two new gadgets, and have two different questions:

I have a new NFC reader, that can light up my xSIID from a just over a couple of inches away, which is quite impressive, is there any real risk of damaging the chip? It’s a Digital Logic one with an ‘rf booster’. Chips are xSIID and Apex.

I’ve also got a cheap little kit for a DIY tesla coil, are they likely to do anything that’d damage an Apex or an xSIID? It is one of the tiny ones that can be had for a few bucks.

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Got a link? Mostly out of interest, but also, how could it be deemed safe without details?

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shouldn’t be any risk of it from this reader.

which one exactly?

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Based on my experience testing this stuff I’m pretty confident it won’t damage your chips (maybe an xLED). Maybe I’ll get one and test it out

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My bad, I’m not quite with it at the moment.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006181633174.html

It’s along these lines, I needed to add something cheap to an order to get free shipping and this seemed like a bit of fun.

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The DL533R, the IP54 one Buy PC/SC RFID Smart Card Reader Writer - DL533R CS IP54

So far, I’m pretty impressed with it, I plan on doing a proper review post at some point. It lights up my NTAG I2C card from a fair distance. (80-90mm vs the ~70 of my ACR122U)

I can’t find any actual details on the ‘RF booster’ though.

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Thats a nice reader.

we do have a review of the smaller DL533R so this would be a nice accompaniment

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