Re: low voltage

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• Subject: Re: low voltage
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:05:09 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

> Original Poster: BAREN01-at-aol-dot-com 
> 
>   I was wondering, what is the lowest voltage any one has ever heard of in 
> the tesla primary?  What are some approiate techiniques for doing so?  
> Espicially for the spark gap or switch of what ever kind is nessessary (I 
> will have trouble with any complex semi-conductor circuits)?
>   I was curious about the lower frequency of resonance and figured that the 
> best way to get the high capacitance and inductance nessisary I would need 
> lower voltages.  If anyone  can offer advice I would appricate it.
>   Ramsey

I've cap discharged a coil with 6V in the primary cap using a bank of 
MOSFETs (to get the Q up). Although the object of the exercise was to 
get research data, I did get 1/2" sparks at one stage. The coil ran 
at about 180kHz from memory.

Malcolm

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