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Re: ASG vs NST....and in this corner!

Chris

Your NST will never work at 20kHz - sorry! Its secondary inductance is so huge
that at 20k the impedance will be vast. Even if you got any output it would be
of a miniscule current. Even the primary inductance would be a problem - and
with such a puny power source (ASG) you probably won't even energise the core.

What you need is a 'Ferroxcube' transformer core, as used in SMPSs and the
like. Find one of the right material for the frequency. You will also need to
boost the ASG output. Make up a very simple push-pull Class C amplifier with
Power Mosfets - or even make two for the full H-Bridge configuration. Connect
this across your primary. Oh - you will need to do a lot of winding of fine
wire for the secondary with insulation inbetween...... If you get this
powerful enough thouugh (several cores needed) you could rectify the O/P and
use it for a DC Tesla.

Alex Crow

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "christopher boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Okay, here goes....
>
> Late last night at the Geek Group labs we had one of those thoughts that
> occur after many hours of consumeing Jolt and tinkering with a group of
> lunatics.
>
> Tesla coils pruduce high voltage at high frequency. (Duh)
> Also..Audio Signal Genorators pruduce high frequency. (Duh)
> And NST's produce High Voltage (Do you follow the theme here?)
>
> The plan was to create a Tesla Coil emulator on a very small scale.
> We were hoping to get 15KV at about 20Khz way too low on both to be a coil
> tye discharge, bu t we were just tinkerin'.
>
> We hooked the ASG to the NST and got....JACK! Why?
> We thought it might be due to core saturation in the NST, but we're not
> sure...any thoughts?
> I'm sure someone has had this idea before, what did you do?
> If it is the NST, can I get a high Freq transformer that will do the big
> step up we need?
>
> This is probably an exercise in futility, but there's not much to do untill
> we can raise the money for the MMC caps.
>
> Christopher A. Boden
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