Re: Dr. Spark's 48Kwatt DRSSTC with new SCR's

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Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ" <christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks to this super list of great people!
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Subject: Re: Dr. Spark's 48Kwatt DRSSTC with new SCR's

Original poster: "colin heath" <colin.heath4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Chris,
            wow looks like quite a find! this project is gaining
momentum already.
Colin

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Subject: Dr. Spark's 48Kwatt DRSSTC with new SCR's


>Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ" <christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>Good day great Coilers,
>
>Just a FYI that this Tesla list works so well as have a little story to
>share with you all. A few weeks ago, I was stumped on how I was going to
>control a 200 amp 240 volt DRSSTC with no variac and wanted the super
>coil to be able to break down and bring to Thons without a crew of 10
>and big truck, so wanted to design a total Solid Coil all the way up the
>control panel and listed my issue to the group and it was suggested to
>me to use a SCR, wow, I forgot about these since the old days in 1974 in
>Physics. The next weekend was the Ham Fest and I was walking down a row
>and guess what I found, three SCR controls
>http://users.cableaz.com/~chooper/images/new%20drivers.jpg  (biggggggg
>ones) and all for $25 with 8 extra SCR's (new). I took all three and ran
>to my truck; these had all components all the way down to the power
>supply, fuses, EMI blocks, etc! The story ends with happy note indeed.
>Thank so much for helping me on the new big project! Keep sharing with
>me! You all are great helpers indeed! Hope to see you all at the Winter
>thon!
>
>
>Thanks again,
>Christopher robin
>
>