Re: NEW Direct Coupled Tesla Circuit - Looks promising

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi Dan,

Cool!!  High voltage MMCs are not too hard to make:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0424-01.gif

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0426-01.jpg

One can just string many MMC type caps in a big high voltage stack.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0426-02.jpg

For the gap, perhaps oil or some type of pressurized gas would help.  Or, 
just a very long linear gap like:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/terrygap.jpg

You could also use two (or more) spheres that are...  200kV / 3Mv/m = 1/15 
meter in radius.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/SGapVolt.jpg

Of course, you are tying to burn far less power in the gap with higher 
voltage but less current so I^2 losses are much lower.  In many coils, 1/2 
the power gets burned off in the gap so this would have great advantage!!

Cheers,

         Terry

At 08:01 AM 12/15/2003, you wrote:

>A friend of mine and myself came up with a new directly coupled tesla
>circuit which from initial looks and simulations
>looks to be able to overcome the limitations of previous direct coupled
>tesla resonant circuits and may easily outperform
>the standard tesla coil.  Sounds too good to be true?  Possibly, but
>time will tell.  The only pitfalls of this circuit are the high voltage
>requirements of a few components including the spark gap.
>
>I've enclosed a sketch of this topology.  Any comments are appreciated.
>
>http://users.snip-dot-net/~liche/directtesla01.jpg
>
>