Re: Superior Power Supply

["Brian" <ka1bbg1-at-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Hi Dan,hi voltage supplies are very expensive! At my old job we had lasers
and the supplies were VERY expensive. a 40kv 1 amp supply with controls will
run you about 10 or 15 thousand easily. They must be made very carefully and
so they will last. cul brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:42 AM
Subject: Superior Power Supply


> Original poster: "Dan Kunkel" <dankunkel-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Tesla Fans,
>
> I have been considering the advantages of using a high voltage DC power
> supply to power a coil.
>
> The reason I think it would work better is the fact that you could use a
DC
> motor to control the gap break rate and not have to worry about it being
in
> sync with the 60 hertz sine wave. Tesla and other modern day coilers have
> noted the benefits of having a large bang size and low break rate.
>
> So where do you draw the line? Maybe your coil would perform best at 81.7
> bps instead of the syncrounous 120 bps. As long as your primary capacitor
is
> large enough, you can keep driving your bps down.
>
> I think the optimum bps would be more closely related to the frequency of
> the coil than anything else.
>
> I would imagine that any modern day HV DC supply would be heavily
> transistor-ized and not behave well with the RF/EMI produced by the coil.
>
> Where could one find one of these (cheaply) without haveing to build your
> own dynamo? I found one company on the web that sells HV DC supllies (and
> will custom make you one to your specs)...outrageous pricing too. Voltages
> anywhere from a few KV to 30KV, and only a few MICRO-amps.
>
> Comments?
>
> Dan
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail-dot-com.
>
> Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
> http://profiles.msn-dot-com.
>
>
>
>