SSTC FIRST LIGHT!! No, It's not a Plasma Sonic ;)

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net> 

  Today, after tearing my hair out for a week, I heeded Aron Koscho's 
advice and decided to check the phasing of my GDT's just one more 
time...  Little did I know that the top two mosfets were getting the same 
signal, as the bottom two... Go figure.  So I reversed the wires, hooked it 
up with just a TL494 pinging two UCC3732X's  driving the full 
bridge.  Power on, I got a whisp of corona on the output, so I said, hey 
what the hell, and I brought it up to 100v.  Sparks increased to 6-8" and 
I'm sure it wasn't running at fres since my tuning pot was just a 10K 
single turn deal from radioshack.  Blew my first fets though on 3rd 
light.  Also blew my 20A fuse I had in line with the variac o_0  Only two 
fets died, and it was silent, I didn't even knew they blew untill I saw my 
lights dim and a flash of light from the fuse holder ;-)  I didn't get a 
picture before the fets blew, and new ones will be here next week, so Ill 
take some pics and put them up on my site when the fets arrive.  Hopefully 
Ill get my feedback circuit back together over the weekend. Thanks 
everybody for your advice,

Regards - Jim Mitchell