RE: NEW Direct Coupled Tesla Circuit - Looks promising

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Original poster: "Richard Wayne Wall" <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com> 

Dan,

A few years back, a tesla list member posted on building a TC coil that did
not have a primary tank capacitor at all.  It had a similar design to
yours, but no capacitor.  This would eliminate the very HV cap requirement.
Probably be a real good idea to protect the HV secondary though.

RWW


 > 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.