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Kicker Coil Powered TC



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

Hi List,

Just wondering if anyone has built their own kicker coil powered small TC,
similar to those sold by Edmunds Scientific.  If so, please share your
design and results.  (A kicker coil is sort-of a one winding induction coil
which relies on the collapsing magnetic field to generate perhaps 1 KV
impulses.  It was more common in the early 1900s.)  Seems like one could
make a kicker coil by using 120 VAC relay with normally closed contacts.

A kicker coil powered TC should be a fairly safe introduction to TCs as no
HV transformers are involved.  One should be able to produce "streamerettes"
a couple inches long.

For those interested in this, get a book from Lindsey Publications called
"High Frequency Apparatus" by Thomas Stanley Curtis, originally published in
1916.  It has a chapter on kicking coil apparatus.

--Steve Young