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Re: Beginer building a small sstc.



Original poster: "Nick D." <ngdbud@xxxxxxxxx>

Maybe I'm confused about this. I thought sstc stood for solid state tesla coil, refering to the power supply, as in no vacuum tubes, just transistors.

Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: "Peter Terren"

I know the arguments for this, however the first pic out of 10,000
when you google for 'Tesla coil' images has it in series....
By the way why is a spark gap in this beginners SSTC anyway? Perhaps SGTC?

Peter


>Original poster: "D.C. Cox" > >Always in parallel --- helps reduce spikes. > >Dr. Resonance > >>I just thought of another question I should have asked. Which is >>better, the schematic where the spark gap is parallel to or in >>series with the primary coil?