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Re: DC TC
>> Subject: DC TC
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[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'?.
>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