Re: TV Power supplies

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: TV Power supplies
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 01:04:23 -0600
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From: 	Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: 	Sunday, November 16, 1997 3:02 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: TV Power supplies

On Saturday, November 15, 1997 8:44 PM Alan Hancock
[SMTP:alan-at-sky-dot-net] wrote;

> I haven't started my first coil and may be showing my ignorance, but I
> have seen a few diagrams for power supplies using TV flyback
> transformers.  If the Flyback transformer will power the coil, why not
> use the television receiver's power supply?

Actualy Alan you could and a few of us have, although it won't be 
as effective as designing a supply specificaly to drive a Tesla coil.
The supply in a T.V. only needs to supply enough high voltage and current 
to drive the electrons to impact the phosphors on the screen and do it at 
the horizontal deflection frequency. For a tesla coil you want to get as 
much cutrrent out of the flyback as you can for bigger sparks, also the 
T.V. needs a particular wave shape on the output to properly image on the 
CRT that wave shape is very inefficient for Tesla coils.

                               Sincerely

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