Re: SSTC Pspice Simulation - Valid or changes needed? ? ? ?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>


Right.  I may try to hook up a 1000 to 1 divider to the top of my solid
state tesla coil and use a variac to bring up the voltage slowly and measure
the output
vs. input and see how that relates to my model.  My current coil model has a
resonant frequency of 199 kHz, and i'm driving my full-bridge in the
simulation
with 200 kHz.  I don't think 1 kHz can make that much difference, but i'll
try it in my simulation and see if increases the output voltage much.

Dan



 > Hi Dan,
 >
 > Hmmmm,  "seems" kind of low to me too but can't say for sure.
 >
 > If we look at it as a pure transformer:
 >
 > V2 = SQRT(L1/L2) V1
 >
 > Gives about 10kV peak to peak.  So that seems to support a lower
 > voltage.  However, the sparks look like more than 10kV to me ;-))  I would
 > hook up a current probe and stuff but I am not sure what you have there to
 > test high voltage things.  Models are neat but they can always us a little
 > solid verification especially when the results don't feel right.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >
 > At 11:14 AM 12/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
 >
 >
 > >Does the voltage output of my SSTC PSPICE simulation look valid????  It
 > >reports about a 20kVDC peak-peak output voltage, but
 > >to me that seems kind of low.  Or is it as in real life, streamer length
is
 > >about 12 inches.
 > >
 > >http://www.spacecatlighting-dot-com/sstc_pspice.htm
 > >
 > >Am I missing something?
 > >
 > >Anything I could add to my tesla resonator model to improve it????
 > >
 > >Any help appreciated.
 > >Thanks
 > >
 > >Dan
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
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