RE: Terry's DRSSTC - First light ;-))

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Original poster: "David Trimmell" <humanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Details Terry ;-) What was the power input? Spark length? Off and on time
and all that jazz... Good to see you getting some nice results, and even
better yet, frying some Si!

Regards,

David Trimmell

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Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:44 PM
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Subject: Terry's DRSSTC - First light ;-))

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