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Re: Pulsed Tube Coil Work (with updates)
Tesla List wrote:
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> Original Poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 99-03-10 16:41:32 EST, you write:
>
> << Original Poster: Alan Sharp <AlanSharp-at-compuserve-dot-com>
>
> > John,
>
> > My interest is in pulsed mosfet driven magnifiers, rather than
> > tubes, but I suspect that secondary doesn't care whether it's
> > being driven by a mosfet or a valve.
>
> > Naturally I want to produce long sparks. I have in the past managed
> 12" at 150 - 800watts but I think I could do better.
>
> >Could you describe what your best performing primary / topload /
> >secondary arrangement and make a guess at the input impedence of
> > the secondary. If its not too far from the 100kHz to 250KHz that I can
> >work with I'ld like to reproduce it and drive it with my new mosfet bridge,
> >either via a primary coil, or more likely build a matching transformer
> > and bottom feed it.
>
> > Alan Sharp (UK)
> >>
>
> Alan,
>
> I don't think it's all that critical at least in the tube coils I build.
> There
> seems to be a wide range of acceptable secondary sizes, wire
> thicknesses, frequencies, etc. I basically use two sizes of secondaries
> for the tube coils. ONe is 3" by 11.5" wound with #28awg, with a 1.5"
> by 6" toroid, with point on top of it. Resonant freq. is about 500kHz,
> The other is a 6" by 23" secondary
> also wound with #28 wire. Resonant freq is about $110 kHz.
> But I know that others have used radically
> different wire sizes, such as #20awg, and gotten the same results.
> I have no idea what the input impedances are. But the specs for
> some of these coils are at David Trimmel's website (he mentioned
> the address yesterday or so).
>
> I've tried a toroid on the larger secondary and it worked the same,
> but the toroid did help the smaller secondary and increased the
> spark by 1". I didn't do any comparisons with other secondary
> sizes.
>
> John Freau
On the subject of pulsed tube coils, I wish someone would try building
a self-pulsed coil. Blocking oscillator principal which was used in VHF
radar transmitters about the beginning of WW2. Tubes like the
VT-127/VT-227/VT327 (triode similar to a 100TH) would put out about 50
kw peak when running at around 10 kv on the anode. A rectified NST
would be a neat way to power such an oscillator. (With a suitably large
filter capacitor, of course.) The design is very simple, just using a
"grid leak" in the megohm range.
Ed
Who will try it himself when he "gets the time to do it".