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Original poster: "Finn Hammer" <f-h-at-c.dk> 

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
>
>Nobody is condemning spark gap coils here.  They will always have their
>place and beauty and are still much simpler
>and more reliable.


The Solid State Disruptive Tesla Coils: the SSDTC`s (formerly malchristened 
the OLTC) Are completely reliable, as long as proper IGBT overvoltage 
prevention is implemented.
With one of Steve Connors controll boards keping track of what`s going on, 
they are pretty hard to kill.
I doubt I am going to build another sparkgap coil, on my own initiative. 
And I`m 52 yrs.
(But I am still taking orders.....)

However, what I really enjoy about the bridge SSTC`s is the return to juicy 
descriptive language that they have brought along.
Remember the days of yore, when caps failed, leaving floors all slippery, 
coilers dispared and wives in disgust?. We havent had reports of that for a 
long time. Coiling was bordering on getting boring and predictable!
Now we have icky sticky goo, "snort allover the place" exploding IGBT`s 
flying around (remember the MOSFets?), in short, we are back with the good 
old unexpected surprice (arent they always) Brains are put to the test, 
coilers pondering.

And cosmic rays!. I thought we weren`t allowed to talk about things like 
that on this list, but the other day one of the most honoured members, Greg 
Leyh, introduced the concept of Cosmic Ray Triggered Shoottrough CRTS. (say 
it! it`s almost an acronym). Much to the relief of the embarrased budding 
powerelectronics basement experimenter wannabee with a rapidly growing pile 
of dead silicon created from  experimentation with terminal results (and 
I`m not talking about the top terminal here).
So that`s why they blew so suddenly, he says with a smug, it was due to CRTS.

The day is getting close, and this is all attributable to the solid state 
of coiling, when we will be able to grasp the concept of free energy, as it 
was originally intended by the great Master and Foreman, Nicola himself. 
Cracpots, scientists and experimenters will join and unite in the great 
quest to  unfold the  original power scheme of the master. No more name 
calling, no ridicule or disgust. Just pure bliss, bliss and heaven.

What a great time we are living in.

Cheers, Finn Hammer, a Danish coiler



>But you have to be realistic.  Most of the younger generation will be
>building solid state stuff, especially
>since a solid high performance design (the DRSSTC) is now available.
>
>Look at the 4hv group which is comprised mostly of the younger crowd.
>More than 90% of the posts
>alone (dealing with tesla coils) are of the solid state type.  Even on
>the TCML, a lot more posts pertaining to solid
>state coils has been circulating in the past year compared to previous
>years (or at least so it seems)
>
>Dan
>
>