Re: NR- CW- SSTC

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Original poster: "Steve Ward" <steve.ward-at-gmail-dot-com> 

Shaun,

This sounds quite interesting and there have been at least 1 other
person that i know of that did about the same thing.  Richie Burnett
did a test like this once and i inquired about it.  He told me that
you need an extremely tough capacitor to handle the very high RMS
currents and at those frequencies, its rough.  He claimed about 32"
sparks from a rather small secondary coil.  I, of course, was
interested immediately and did experiment a little bit, but didnt get
too far yet (perhaps my lashup was just a bit too sloppy ;-)).

So is there any chance of getting any pics?  Dont have a friend with a
digital camera?

I guess i will just have to try it again on my own and get some pics ;-).

One thing im wondering about is, what size toroid are you using?

Steve


On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:56:38 -0600, Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Shaun Epp" <scepp-at-shaw.ca>
 >
 > Well I tried something new   ; - )      I have a Plasmasonic 2 board from
 > Dan and I did a partial series resonance on the primary.  I blew a
 > capacitor in the making of this and popped two fuses, which I soldered a
 > wire across (bad me!), popped the breaker on the power bar several times (I
 > plugged in direct after this) , and them the apartment 15 amp circuit
 > breaker a few times.  I put 240 Vac into the board with a step up
 > transformer, on half wave rectified to the H bridge.
 >
 > Resonance is suppose to be 0.015 uF according to WinTesla for my primary
 > and my MMC bank for my SGTC (which uses the same secondary and base) just
 > happens to near resonant with my primary, It's 0.0212 uF.  Before using my
 > MMC bank I connected a 0.02 uF 10 Kv cap that I had in my collection.  It
 > worked at first, but then the glass cracked ,(the capacitor was very hot!)
 > and the capacitor separated.   Oops, I  guess it couldn't handle the power.
 >
 > Then I had fun with fuses and breakers.  Whee!  I can run it at about 95V
 > input to the voltage doubling transformer before popping the circuit
 > breaker.  This set up gives fierce arcs and lightening like discharges
 > about 2 1/2 feet maybe longer.  It crackles when you draw an arc.
 >
 > I wish I had a digital camera
 >
 > Shaun Epp
 >
 > Tesla coiling in Central Canada
 > Winnipeg, home of the worst summer on record, comparable to Syberia
 >
 >