RE: Small Table Top Coil Designs

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Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com> 

 >Maybe soon, we can figure out a real nice reliable "little" DRSSTC design
 >for the masses...

I have spent a lot of time helping younger and less experienced coilers
along with building DRSSTCs and OLTCs (and classic SSTCs too) But generally
once they blow a few sets of IGBTs they get bored and wander off to
something else, leaving me wondering why I bothered.

I am now of the opinion that if you have to ask, you're never going to
understand. I don't know if these things will ever be accessible to the
non-oscilloscope-owning public...

Steve Ward's MISSTC would be a great design for the DRSSTC beginner to copy.
It has passive current limiting due to fairly thin primary wire and
oversized IGBTs, so it seems to be fairly reliable without needing any
complicated protection circuits. I think he got about 25" from this tabletop
sized coil.

Steve C.