Re: "DC drive"

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: "DC drive"
• From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
• Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:23:54 -0800

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu Tue Dec 10 13:55:07 1996
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 17:59:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: "DC drive"
> 
> The resonant charger is a 2.5H, 10A, 28kV reactor in series with the output
> of the rectifier stack,  which gives the charging ckt a ringing frequency
> of about 150 Hz (Cpri = 0.495uF).
> 
>         Wow!  That is really a setup.  Where did those parts come from,
> how much do they weigh, and (it's really none of our business) how much
> did they cost?  A friend of mine at a former place of employment designed
> and built a 1.3 henry, 1000 amp inductor.  The mechanical design alone
> took months.
> 
> Ed Phillips

Ed, 

Shazaam!! What size coil was HE building?? :^)

-- Bert --

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