Re: High Reliability - DRSSTC II - Proven

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Original poster: Steve Ward <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>

Nice, 5 Hours ;-)  I bet the place must have started to wreak of
ozone.  I know if i run my larger DRSSTC in the basment for maybe 5
minutes or so it gets pretty bad, i cant imagine 5 hours.

You definately have me beat... the longest run ive ever had was on my
mini DRSSTC which was about 15 minutes continuously.  Nothing
failed... but the ozone was getting bad and i figured i should give my
parents a break with all the noise ;-).

Just curious, did you have lots of power arcs to any targets?  Or were
you just producing air streamers for most of the display time?  It
seems that DRSSTCs are pretty good for just making streamers, but
still have somewhat of a weak spot for heavy arcing, though looking at
pics of your coil you dont seem to worry about that ;-).

Im quite surprised that those GE caps you use for your MMC have held
up to that abuse as well.  Some of the caps in the 42L series are not
foil, but only metalized.  But i think the higher voltage ones are
foil, which is what i guess you are using.

Anyway, good work.

Steve


On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:38:53 -0700, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Great!!!
>
> I think that is the longest run I have ever heard of for any large Tesla 
coil!!
>
> Have you made any further significant changes to the system to make it so
> reliable?
>
> Looking forward to your new book!!
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
> At 08:07 AM 12/21/2004, you wrote:
> >If there were any doubts about the reliability of the DRSSTC system,
> >there are none now.
> >
> >In the past few months i have been demonstrating my DRSSTC II system at
> >a number of events including both
> >corporate and educational events.
> >
> >I have put in a total of 100 hours of cumulative runtime on this sytem
> >at full power with zero failures.
> >
> >At the most recent demonstration, the coil was left running at 100%
> >power (280VAC input power, 100Hz PRF, 300uS
> >Pulsewidth) for a CONTINUOUS 5 hours as a floor display.
> >
> >Component heating is minimum (at the 100Hz PRF - ) and the muffin fan
> >cools bridge components sufficiently.
> >
> >GO DRSSTC !!!!!
>
>