Tesla Coil Tuner and 555

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Terry,
Everyone bear witness! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!!! It was 
late and I had the printouts of the 2 schematics backwards. You are of 
course correct in that you have pin #4 connected and the guys on the 555 
site leave it off!

Somehow, you got my messages out of order as I sent you a post earlier, 
that has already been posted, explaining that I finished the TCT and 
everything is absolutely fine. I had even sent a post replying to Steve 
Connor explaining my errors.

I have finally figured out where I got sidetracked. When I was looking 
through my data sheets, I accidentally picked up the one for the LM555 
instead of the one that came with my TLC555CP from TI, which is indeed a 
CMOS IC. This is why my TCT works so well. I don't think it would have 
functioned correctly if I had actually used an LM555.

All's well that ends well. Like I said in my previous post, the TCT works 
like a champ and like you said, I probably know more about the venerable 
555 IC than I would ever want to or need to know! One last comment, Terry, 
would you consider adding a meter option to your TCT file? I think that 
people other than me would find this easier to work with than the LED. Just 
a thought. Regards.
Paul
Think Positive

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: good scopes for coiling

> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> At 05:12 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote:
>>Terry,
>>Thanks. Please, I am not trying to criticize your TCT design in any way.
>
> You better not!!!  :o)))