Re: DC TC (fwd)

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Subject: Re: DC TC (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:10:38 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 22:10:56 -0500
From: Thomas McGahee <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: DC TC



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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: DC TC
> Date: Monday, February 17, 1997 5:25 PM
> 
> >> Subject: DC TC
> 
> Subscriber: tesla-at-america-dot-com Mon Feb 17 14:35:25 1997
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 06:59:06 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bob Schumann <tesla-at-america-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: DC TC
> 
> >> Subject: DC TC
> >
> [big snip]
> 
> [Fr. Tom McGahee wrote]
> 
> >Unless you use a full-wave bridge diode arrangement, you really
> >don't gain much operationally. With a full-wave bridge you at 
> >least get to have 120 Peaks per second instead of just the usual 60.
> >
> 
> Tom,
>         I thought that I had 120 peaks per second with AC. How do you
> mean the 'usual 60'?. 
> 

Hmmm, sorry you misunderstood my statement.. With just a single diode the
circuit would have only 60 peaks per second because it would be a
*half-wave* rectifier arangement. I did not mean that an AC circuit had
only 60 peaks per second, but that a single diode circuit would have only
60 peaks per second. Sorry if my wording confused anyone.

Fr. Tom McGahee

> 
> >What we really need here is to hear from those who have actually built
such
> >beasts.
> >OK, guys, you who have actually *done* all this DC stuff, is it 
> >worth it at all? Or is it a big bust???
> >
> 
> Tom, Gary, all,
>         
>         I can call my model-t coil project DC as that is what it operates
> on. The best output I got was 3 inches. I was thinking of a way to put
> it all in a self contained unit but I have been using my CP apacitor so
> space is out of the question there until I find a different cap. I will
> eventually have pics to this project on my homepage. I recently took
> a model-t coil apart all the way down to 'BUT NOT' depotting it. Ha! 
> there is a cap in there! I was using the output to charge a cap, break
> a spark gap and run to a TC. I found the natural 'buzz' of the model-t
> coil to be arounf 500hz. I have been messing around with the thought
> of making a coil setup that may grab some strange harmonics and use
> the model-t coil output directly into a primary instead of the external
> cap, gap setup. The only disadvantages I see to this are current and
> windings for around 500hz. A really big coil!
> 
> Bob Schumann
>