Re: Recent s.s.t.c. work

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Original poster: "K. C. Herrick" <kchdlh@xxxxxxx>

Just to assure some of you that I've not totally given up yet...

As I've mentioned before, I find that at my advanced age I'm losing 
the motivation to continue "making things"--as I have been doing for 
~70 years.  So I haven't done anything further yet on trying to find 
the source of the problem with my new s.s.t.c.  I think that I have 
set the peak gate voltage too high, and consequently shorted the gate 
of one of the bricks.  I can readily reduce that by 5V and I have 2 
more good bricks; it's just a matter of getting around to it.
Finn Hammer mentioned potential problems with putting the primary 
inside the secondary, as I have done.  I think my solution to that 
would be to raise up the entire secondary so that the bottom of it 
was more or less at the top of the primary winding.  Then, add an 
auxiliary secondary, of sufficiently larger diameter, aligned with 
the primary and of more or less the same height.  That way, I keep 
all the existing hardware and only have to fabricate the relatively 
simple auxiliary coil and its former.
So the steps I need to take are clear.  I'll likely get to them some 
time after the holdiays are over.
Ken Herrick