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Re: Solid State Neons and TCs


From: 	Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil[SMTP:Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil]
Sent: 	Saturday, November 01, 1997 3:02 PM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	RE: Solid State Neons and TCs


Hi Fr. Tom, All,
     I bought one of these and at first couldn't get it to work.
I read the directions and tried a 1 megohm resistor across it.
It made the resistor hot and made a wimpy spark when I
removed on of the hv leads from the resistor.  From my experiment
and what I could gather from the directions these things
like to see a high impedance load or they shut down!  From
the sound of the spark the frequency wasn't too high.
I don't think that it would work very well for a TC.

     I have a gutted specimen that appears to be
a transistorized flyback transformer with neat subdivided
HV windings.  There are a couple of 1n4007's in series
with each HV lead.

                    Barry

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From: "tesla"-at-pupman-dot-com-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
To: Benson Barry; "tesla"-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
Subject: Solid State Neons and TCs
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 8:33PM

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From:     Thomas McGahee[SMTP:tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com]
Sent:     Wednesday, October 29, 1997 3:36 PM
To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject:  Solid State Neons and TCs

Fellow Coilers,
Someone on the list recently mentioned that they might try running their TC
with a solid state neon transformer.

Has anyone out there actually tried it? Since they run at a frequency of 
many
kilocycles per second, I would think that there might be a problem using 
these
(unless they are rectified and used to power a HV DC supply). The main cap 
is
going to see a high frequency instead of the normal 60Hz, and I would think
that such a state of affairs would not allow the cap to charge to a very 
large
voltage.

My brain tells me that they are not going to work well, but I am interested 
in
gathering FACTUAL data, so if anyone has tried using these beasts, please
share
the results with the rest of us.

Thanks!
Fr. Tom McGahee