Equidrive - was New Lab ..

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Original poster: "LWRobertson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com>

Ed and all ...

I have been running a "eqidrive" configuration with an H-bridge
rotary for a few years with no cap failures yet. Each cap is 0.1uF
at 50kV. I don't have an hourmeter, but if any setup is going to
be hard on caps it should be this one. They are Maxwells, though.

Cheers
LR



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Subject: Re: New Lab, Family Coil, 1st Light


> Original poster: "Edward Wingate by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ewing7-at-rochester.rr-dot-com>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> Ed,
>
> There are others.
>
> I have been running my magnifier system with the "equidrive"
> configuration for several years with the same two capacitors. The caps
> are rated .1 mfd -at- 45KV pulse for a total capacitance of .05 mfd -at- 90KV.
> Total runtime for the capacitors according to the hour meter on this
> system is 18 hours! The system output is more linear from minimum to
> maximum (4 inch purple streamers to 14 foot white hot  arcs) using the
> equidrive configuration.
>
> >  the transformer secondary windings will not provide that function as it
does
> >  with a single cap.
> >
> >  Ed Sonderman
>
>
>