Re: Craig's SGTC (plus SSTC)

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 


Hi Craig,

   Very neat job!  Two things I noticed:
1) There seems to be a typo on your primary write-up. It says the conductor 
is 10 mm diameter and 10 mm long. Shouldn't that be 10 m instead?
2) In humid weather, your string tie-downs could become somewhat 
conductive, causing an intermittent high-resistance short in your primary
In a message dated 7/10/05 2:25:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've just started to get decent streamers from my first SGTC so I thought
>I would post the results.  The setup is:
>
>* 4 MOT Stack Power Supply (no oil)
>* Inductive Ballast (limits current draw to 10A).
>* 80nF MMC (was originally beer bottles).
>* Asynchronous Rotary Spark Gap
>* 110mm Diameter Secondary (1000 turns 0.55mm wire).
>
>At the moment I'm getting streamers which are over 1 meter long.  I've
>only just started tuning the coil, so it's not performing at it's best
>yet, but I seem to get good results with around 2 turns on the
>primary.  My original calculations led me to believe that best results
>would be between 3 and 4 turns on the primary, but this doesn't seem to be
>the case.
>
>Pictures of the coil and it's streamers can be found on my website
>(www.craigsarea.com/sgtc.html).  Scroll to the bottom of the webpage for
>streamer pictures.
>
>Previously I made a SSTC, which is also on my website
>(www.craigsarea.com/sstc.html).  I really like the robustness of spark gap
>coils.  An out of tune spark gap coil just results in poor performance,
>whereas an out of tune solid state coil often results in having to
>desolder the MOSFET's.  I also think the streamer behavior of spark gap
>coils is more pleasing than solid state coils.
>
>Hope you like it,
>
>Craig.