Re: TSG with DC?

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Robert,

Is your DC supply filtered (a microfarad or more across the output)?  Or do
you just have the bare rectifiers on your NST?  Your design is indeed
jaw-dropping as your "reactor" can only be a few micro-Henry.
--Steve
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> Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
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> S>J>Y>: You are correct. You must extinguish your arc by desigh with a DC
> coil. I use a series coil to disconect my power from my arc. There has
been
> a lot of people say it dosent work because the coil is not big enough to
> work at low frequency, but they dont look at the frequency of the rise
tine
> of the arc. I use 15t of wire 3/4 in dia 6 in long coil in my power supply
> line as a series disconect choke. When the capacitor charges the arc
fires,
> the coil reacts to the current and disconects the arc from the power
supply.
> The arc discharges the capacitor, and the arc stops. Then the coil
conducts
> recharging the capacitor. I have a 260 pps fire rate with a 15kv 60ma NST
> through a rectifier as my full wave power supply. Some one forgot to tell
> the bumble bee he couldnt fly so he dose. My unit fires well No one told
it
> it couldnt. Robert  H.
>
> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:04:31 -0700
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: TSG with DC?
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> > Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:15:56 -0700
> >
> > Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> > <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Yes, timing can be whatever you want.  But how do you get the gap to
> > extinguish?  DC obviously doesn't have a zero crossing to stop gap
> > conduction, so you have to quench it some other way.  You can have a
power
> > supply that "folds back" to zero when the gap fires - not an easy thing
to
> > design.  I think Marco's 10 KV output switching power supply may behave
that
> > way.  Or perhaps a strong blast of air will "blow out" the gap plasma.
I
> > have yet to try a TSG with my DC powered TC.  If others have, please
share
> > your results.
> >
> > --Steve
> >
> >
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> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: TSG with DC?
> >
> >
> >> Original poster: "Michael H Nolley by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nolleym-at-willamette.edu>
> >>
> >>
> >> If the TSG were to be used on a DC coil, the timing issue would be
> >> non-existent, am I
> >> correct?  If so, how configurable could you make the TSG bps? It would
be
> >> cool if you could
> >> adjust the breaks between 1 and several hundred bps.
> >>
> >> --Mike
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