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Re: Hvguy-dot-com Feedback SSTC and New Stuff!!!



Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>

Ken,
So is the reason why it will not work because of the fact that there is no
bias to keep the base-emitter junctions conducting -and therefore the
transistors cannot work as linear amplifiers?

Would biasing resistors suffice to get the thing started?
Jolyon.

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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Hvguy-dot-com Feedback SSTC and New Stuff!!!


 > Original poster: "K. C. Herrick by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com>
 >
 > Jolyon-
 >
 > I believe I see what you are getting at...but it won't work.  You need a
 > linear amplifier directly following the network in the return-circuit of
 > the secondary.  The signal there is no more than noise initially, then
 > increases to only ~+/- 0.7 V because of the diodes.  You want the diodes
so
 > as to limit the voltage excursion when the oscillations build up.  For
that
 > amplifier, I just use 3 CMOS gates "linearized" with ~100 K feedback
 > resistors and capacitor-coupled.  The 3 must be in two ICs, not just one,
 > to avoid deleterious substrate-coupling.  The output of the 3rd one will
be
 > pretty much a 5 V square wave all the time.  Circuit noise in that
 > amplifier chain should be sufficient to get things started.
 >
 > You could use, perhaps more efficiently, a single op-amp to drive the
 > following logic-level gates.
 >
 > The next CMOS gate in the line will provide a firm square wave, and then
 > one more can be used, with a switch, to select the correct
 > positive-feedback phase for the subsequent stages.
 >
 > Ken Herrick
 >
 > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:01:34 -0700 "Tesla list"
 > <<mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
 >  > Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz
 >  > <<mailto:twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <<mailto:jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
 >  >
 >  > Ken,
 >  > With regard to common base circuit reconfigured slightly to include
 >  > a 1k
 >  > resistor
 >  > would this work if Phases 1 & 2 instead of being used to drive the
 >  > fets
 >  > directly were used to drive an amplifier which would drive
 >  > the fets say, via a pulse transformer?
 >  >
 >  >                          +ve supply rail
 >  >  > >                    |
 >  >  > >                    R1
 >  >  > >                    |
 >  >  > >                    +-------Phase 1
 >  >  > >                 c |
 >  >  > >                    \
 >  >  > >            NPN |---------GND
 >  >  > >                e /
 >  >  > >    sec         |
 >  >  > >    |              |
 >  >  > >   +--1K----+
 >  >  > >   |               |
 >  >  > > c1           e \
 >  >  > >   |       PNP |----------GND
 >  >  > >   |            c /
 >  >  > >   |               |
 >  >  > >  +---------------------GND
 >  >  > >                   |
 >  >  > >                  +----------Phase 2
 >  >  > >                   |
 >  >  > >                  R2
 >  >  > >                   |
 >  >  > >                  -ve supply rail
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > (The circuit I have shown is basically a non-inverting
 >  > voltage amplifier. The emitter-base junctions of the NPN
 >  > and PNP transistors act in the same way as the
 >  > back-to-back diodes in the setup you described -switching
 >  > on the respective transistors whenever voltage across
 >  > them goes above and below 0.6 volts, positive or negative
 >  > of ground)
 >  >
 >  > Jolyon.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > ----- Original Message -----
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 >  > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:58 AM
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