Re: 48kW DRSSTC and RELIABILITY

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Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, seasons greetings. i have a question, if you applied 3 or 4 ground rails
what effect dit it have on tuning and operation? cul brian f.
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Subject: Re: 48kW DRSSTC and RELIABILITY


> Original poster: Jimmy Hynes <jphynes@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> First of all, I don't think I have much to add on making it survive
> primary strikes, since Conner pretty much has it figured out. As he
> said, it's all common mode (if you keep that decoupling good), and
> the GDT would be the weak point, so shielding it like that should fix it.
>
> The "old solution" of just preventing the strikes can be just as
> effective. Instead of one strike rail, use 3 or 4. Since I did that,
> I have gotten a ton of strikes to the strike rail, but none to the
> primary, so it doesn't even matter if I 'fixed' it in that regard. It
> has yet to get past the first line of defense :-)
>
>  > Lastly, I should mention that I owe one to Steve Ward and Jimmy
>  > Hynes. They were kind enough to share their DRSSTC experimental
>  > results and ideas with me, so my design could build on all their
>  > findings too. This was the main reason I chose to make it an ope n
design.
>
>
> Yeah, sure, you can owe me one if you want.... But I kinda had to,
> otherwise you couldn't have helped me so much to get it working :P.
> Not that it wouldn't have been an open design anyway... :-)
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