Re: DC power

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Original poster: "Chris Swinson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <exxos-at-cps-games.co.uk>

Hi Nick,



> Hi Chris
>
> The SPDT spark gap, as you describe, has been tried by many and I'm sorry
to
> say almost invariably been a miserable failiure.  The extra set of losses
it
> introduces just kill the spark length.  Martin Dale, who will be at the
> Derby Teslathon,

When and where is that show then ? I've been out of touch for a while...

>is the only person I know of to have run small DC coils.
> He may well be able to help you out with finding a charging reactor.  FWIW
> the secondary of an NST may well have an inductance in the ballpark you're
> looking for.  Are you running filtered DC or just the fullwave output from
> the rectifier?

I tried a NST secondary yesterday, didn't really do anything much appart
from blow the diodes out. The DC supply is filtered with a 2MFD cap.

Chris