Re: Quad SSTC

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Original poster: "Adam Horden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <electronicmadman-at-blueyonder.co.uk>

Hi,

Sorry the video was taken offline after my ISP said I wa abuseing bandwith!

If any one can host it then I would be very gratefull,

Adam Horden
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Quad SSTC


 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
 >
 > Thanks Alan.  I've been waiting to get details from this coil as I did see
 > Adam Horden's video of the quad coil in action.
 >
 > Now you are playing "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" theme, but are
you
 > feeding that directly with an audio source, or actually programming that
 > audio modulation
 > with the PIC itself.  It sounds like it the tones were generated directly
by
 > the PIC itself.  Also, what type of power supply are you using with this
 > glorious creation?  Judging by
 > the video, it does appear there is considerable line frequency ripple
making
 > the streamers longer than they would if pure DC was fed.
 >
 > Anyways, it was a very impressive demonstration and was the actual thing
 > that inspired me to get off my butt and finish my audio modulation
 > conversion on my SSTC.
 > Good job and thanks!!!
 >
 > Another idea I had was to hook up a keyboard to my SSTC.
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >
 >
 >  > Basicaly its 4 coils arranged in a square each driven by a separate
 >  > ful bridge driver. The drivers in turn are controlled by a PIC
processor,
 >  > By altering phases and using intermitant modes. You can arrange to have
 >  > sparks going
 >  > A-B
 >  > C-D
 >  > or
 >  > A-B
 >  > ! !
 >  > C-D
 >  >
 >  > or forming a square, or diagonaly
 >  > or everything at once
 >  > A-B
 >  > !X!
 >  > C-D
 >  >
 >  > At present I'm limited to running at under half power - it needs a 25A
 > 400V
 >  > DC
 >  > supply to run properly.  It will also play tunes - though I restricted
my
 >  > self to the
 >  > 5 note phrase from "close encounters".  Unfortunately it will not yet
 >  > function
 >  > as a warp engine :(
 >  >
 >  > Here's a use for all those PCB's you've been buying.
 >  >
 >  > Alan Sharp
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
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