Re: Paralleled Primaries / Separate Drive Circuit - SSTCs ? ? ?

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

Hi Dan,
         What you're proposing is in essence just paralleling a bunch
of drivers into a single coil.

Malcolm

On 17 Sep 2003, at 16:50, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >
 >
 > Has anyone explored the use of paralleled primaries in SSTC use.
 >
 > For example, say I had two SSTC full-bridge power supplies each with
 > their own dedicated primary winding and of course both supplies
 > switching frequency are synchronized.  Now i take those two independent
 > windings and use them either interweaved, or top/bottom configurations
 > and run both at the same time.
 >
 > Neglecting losses, I would assume that two 5kW power supplies combined
 > like this would appear like one 10kW supply to
 > the secondary coil.  Is this correct???
 >
 > If so, perhaps this is a way to increase power even more to a SSTC when
 > the maximum impedance of one coil limitations
 > are met.
 >
 > Suppose I had four independent synchronized SSTC drivers with four
 > independent primaries . . . Hmmm . . . . could
 > get interesting!
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >
 >