Re: DC Powered Large Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>



Input power source is 3 phase 440VAC.


 > 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
 > ----- Original Message -----
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 > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:32 PM
 > 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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