Re: Equidrive P.S.

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Original poster: "Allanh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <allanh-at-starband-dot-net>

I believe that the center of the two MOT diodes should be connected to
ground, two reasons, it will balance the
load on the diodes and the caps.

allan

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Subject: Re: Equidrive P.S.


> Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
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> Hello Greg, Coilers,
>
> You're right, the diagram does have a nice "balanced" look to it.
> A question for you...have you found from experience that twelve
> of the 1N4007 diodes are sufficient?  I've got a 6 KV, 250 mA.
> power transformer that I was thinking of using for an experiment
> with the D.C. resonant charging.  I plan on using a full wave
> bridge with one of my 9 uF. -at- 60 KV capacitors for the supply,
> and wondered about the P.R.V. of a string of 12 being enough.
>
> The "de-Qing" or blocking diode would have to hold off the rather
> high reverse voltage spike from the charging choke.  As well, it
> would have to stand up to whatever RF managed to sneak through the
> choke, although it won't be much with the inductance being high!
> Maybe a string of 4 or 5 M.O. diodes would work nicely for that.
>
> As to the charging choke itself, since one end of the secondary is
> already connected to the MOT core, I'm going to leave it that way
> and connect the core end of the winding to the blocking diode of
> the power supply and the other end to the tank circuit of my coil.
> Anyone see a problem with that?  I think I'll put the entire choke
> in a PVC junction box, immersed in oil, and bring the two leads
> out through porcelain feedthrough bushings.
>
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