Re: rectified nst's and hookup

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Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi marc

Try to find the spec of your diode. It's look like microwave oven
diode verified the non repetitive peak current for that kind of
diode around 25 A put a resistor between on leg of the transfo
and your bridge around 600 ohm.

Luc Benard

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Metlicka Marc by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>
> 
> all,
> i built a hv bridge out of three 12kv\550ma diodes per leg giving me a
> theoretical 36kv bridge.
> my question is:
> i hooked each hv term. of the 12\30 nst to each AC leg of the bridge,
> from +dc out to tank cap, from tank cap out to one side of the sync.
> triggered spark gap, from the other electrode out to the primary, from
> the primary too the -dc side of the bridge. does this sound right?
> i never even looked at a dc tc before and would hate to blow something
> up.
> i don't want to put power to it until i get some input first.
> thanks in advance,
> marc m.