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Terry's DRSSTC - First light ;-))
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- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:44:21 -0700
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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi All,
I hauled the thing over to Jerry's house tonight to run it at full power!!
Works great!!
Pretty pictures from handycam video (forgot to take good pics...)
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-01.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-02.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-03.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-04.jpg
It worked perfectly until I got a primary power arc which took out two IGBTs:
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19795.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19796.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19797.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19798.jpg
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19799.jpg
Damage seems very minimal at first look. Just two IGBTs blew their tops ;-)
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/IGBTsetTwo.jpg
There is a DIVX movie here (16Meg) of the last few moments.
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-short.avi
So it runs great!! and the two IGBT explosions, so far, are well explained...
Replace the IGBTs and make a strike rail and off to the next road trip ;-))
Cheers,
Terry