DC Supplies for SSTC Coils ? ? ?

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

Just curious to see what you guys were using for DC supplies when running DC
to your SSTC coils.
I'm revisiting audio modulation with mine and I tried running full-bridge
rectified with smoothing capacitors of up to 21,000uF (450VDC capacitors) to
get 170VDC output of the
circuit, but the peak DC currents are just killing my controller and
everything else.  I try lowering the capacitance, but i still get too much
120Hz ripple.

I wonder what Richie and Alan were using . . .

The Captain