Re: DC Powered Large Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "Scott Hanson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <huil888-at-surfside-dot-net>

Dan -

A continuous 2000 ma (2A) at 45.5 kV is over 90 thousand watts of output
power. With the inevitable losses in the power supply itself, input power
must be 100 thousand watts or more.

What is the input power source for your DC power supply?

Scott Hanson
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Subject: DC Powered Large Tesla Coils


 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >
 >
 > I finally got my High Voltage resonant-mode DC power supply to work this
 > past week and am ready to begin thinking
 > how I am going to incorporate this into the DC Tesla Coil I am planning on
 > building.
 > Using a dummy load set-up, I managed to get a sustained output of 2000mA
at
 > 45.5kVDC.  However, I am planning on
 > running the supply at a much lower current at about 500mA at 45kVDC.  My
 > current plan calls for a large conventional
 > type tesla coil running with a large ARSG.
 >
 > My question is, that I wanted to get some advice, 'lessons learned',
etc...
 > from people who have already ventured into
 > the DC powered tesla coil arena.  I'm current working on some very
detailed
 > simulations to see the effects of varying
 > BPS and cap size is for something like this.
 >
 > Any advice, comments, appreciated!
 >
 > Thanks
 > Dan
 >