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RE: Pulsed Tube Coil Work (questions)
John
what tetrode did you use? This is quite clever!
Also, when you refer to 3 pulses/sec are you
associating this with the time constant to charge
the DC filter cap? Is this rule of thumb? What
happens if you increase the rate?
John G
John W. Gudenas, Ph.D.
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Subject: Pulsed Tube Coil Work (with updates)
Anyhow, to solve this problem, I used a tetrode tube for the main TC
oscillator and fed a source of 600 volt, 60 Hz AC, through a dropping
resistor, to the screen of the vacuum tube. So the plate received
pure DC, the screen received 60 Hz AC and the grid was connected
in the traditional tube TC fashion. Results were now excellent--the
oscillator starts gradually under the influence of the screen grid AC
and the sparks appeared just like the AC pulsed tube coil sparks.
Since the system uses filtered DC, it is possible to use a small,
weak, transformer which slowly charges the filter capacitor over
multiple AC cycles during TC "off" times. Then, when the filter
capacitor is fully charged, the TC is turned "on" and the tremendous
stored energy in the filter capacitor is instantly available to the TC
which produces a giant spark pulse which partially depletes the filter
capacitor's charge and the cycle begins anew. I use about 3
pulses/sec which appears reasonably steady to the eye.