RE: Small Table Top Coil Designs

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Original poster: "Ken Purcell" <kpurcell-at-augustmail-dot-com> 

Well,

I like to thanks all for the feedback.  Hell the general public doesn't
own or know how to use a voltmeter much less an OScope.  I was looking
for an assessment of what others have been doing since I messed with
coils ten to fifteen years ago.  So thanks for the young pup comment
too.

I'm not looking for a kit per se' but a starting idea of the scope of
this project.  I now have several options to work through and thanks for
ya'lls help. (Texas slang thing)

I'm not sure we would want a Coil in every neighborhood a la a chicken
in every pot.

Regards,

Ken Purcell

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Subject: RE: Small Table Top Coil Designs

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.