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H-Bridge Rotary. Was Last Erg.
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From: Julian Green [SMTP:julian-at-kbss.bt.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 4:56 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: H-Bridge Rotary. Was Last Erg.
> From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
> Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 10:37 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: H-Bridge Rotary. Was Last Erg.
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> Hi Larry,
> I had a similar idea to yours several years ago and
> popped the question to an experienced coiler at the time. He said he
> had tried exactly the same thing and got kickbacks that blew
> lightbulbs in a neighbour's house! His initial thought was that he
> was connecting a partially charged cap back up to the mains but my
> thought is that he was in fact slamming a short across the mains at
> an unfavourable point in the mains cycle (see the lights dim when
> you switch your computer on sometimes, right?) Connecting a cap to
> the mains at the peak of a sine is placing a temporary short across
> it. I think you cannot judge how an unballasted setup is going to
> behave from the behaviour of a ballasted system. I concur with Bert
> Pool - I think you may find unexpected problems.
>
> Best of luck anyway,
> Malcolm
I have a coil that is powered by a pole pig and has no/little balast.
5 ohms mains wiring resistance at 240 volts - its all down to the spark
gap that I use.
If I use a multi static gap like the richard quick type I have kick back
problems and blowen fuses, lights dim etc.
If I use my rotary which is literally thrown together it runns smooth.
I have an amp meter on my variac and when the coil is running its shows
a steady 12-15 amps depending on how I adjust the spark gap.
The spark gap is based on a 10,000 RPM motor and uses electrodes 1/8"
diameter on a 6" diameter disk, so the dwell time is short. There's a
picture of it at www-dot-netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/uktesla.html.
The spark gap is not very good, but it works. It shows that it is
possible to have a pole pig powered coil with minimal balast.
NOTE: A coil powered at 8KV using current limiting and richard quick
type spark cap out performed my voil powered by 11KV pole pig and
rotary gap at a recent teslathon :(
Julian Green