Re: Solid state kicker coil?

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Original poster: "Mercurus by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>

Hmm, are you sure this is a pure kicker coil you built? You said it uses a
secondary and a primary? Most kicker coils I heard about only have one coil.
                                                 Mercurus
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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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> Merc: The kicker coil uses the collapsing magnetic field to produce a
sudden
> high voltage spike not the charging field. The charging waveshape can be a
> sawtooth, but the discharge MUST be sharp and sudden. If you put a high
> voltage diode in series with the transistor collector to protect the
> transistor from the reverse voltage spike it would be well.I use two
> solinoid coil cores in each leg with a common iron core from an old wash
> machine as my kicker coils. My charge capacitor is .2uF and my primary
coil
> is 2 turns of #12 House wire around my 900 turn cone secondary. Research
the
> curcuits for auto CD ignition circuits for good schematics. Your collector
> resistor can be large for the transistor, but the charge diode to the
kicker
> should be high voltage/current to take the drive power and reverse voltage
> like a MOT diode or a TV fly back diode. I make my secondary coils of
> fiberglass using a  rubber trafic cones as a mold coil form. With a little
> mold release the rubber cone pules out of my fiberglass coil form to wind.
>     Robert  H
>
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> > Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 03:51:33 -0700
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> > Subject: Solid state kicker coil?
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> > Original poster: "Mercurus by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> > <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
> >
> > Hey I was wondering if anyone here could give me tips on constructing a
solid
> > state kicker coil, I've been trying to build one using a neon bulb,
inductor,
> > 555 timer and a power transistor, but I don't seem to be having any
luck.=/
> > the
> > light only lights up when I cut the power.
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