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 -

Did you mean to say "RSG" instead of "ASRG"?

With a DC charging system there's no "synchronism" to speak of.

Regards,
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
 >
 >
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