Running Tesla Coil from Power Inverters

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>



Any have experience in running small coils (< 500W) from 12VDC-120VAC power
inverters.

I realize that most of the inexpensive types basically output a square wave
and not a sine or stepped sine wave and not sure how this would affect
performance.  I would suspect the following:

1. Much higher peak charging currents for tank capacitor.

2.  Much higher peak voltages as to obtain same RMS output, the peak value
of a square wave is much higher.  This could be bad for NST and capacitors.


What are your thoughts??

Dan