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Re: Commercial SSTC



Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've seen that on ebay a few times. The "safer" waveform thing sounds like snake oil to me. The pic doesn't show his feet. The energy has to go somewhere no matter the waveform, most likely that left rf burns at the strike points and worse ones where they exit on his feet, esp if he has shoes on with poor contact to ground. I'd like to see a video of that to tell how long he kept his arm there. Can't be certain without buying one and measuring it, but looks like by the sparks the waveform is a cross between disruptive and continuous, probably using a driver circuit similar to Terry's, but not user programmable, and no primary resonant circuit that a drsstc has. Too bad I can't rent one of those to reverse engineer it, if it turns out to not be snake oil they just made farady suits for stuntmen obsolete, assuming it can be scaled up like a conventional coil.

Mike

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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: Commercial SSTC


Original poster: "S&JY" <youngsters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Coilers,

I ran across a website of a company that manufactures and sells SSTCs. See
http://www.teslacoil.net/images/SSTC-3-disWEBBuy.htm .  According to the
description and photos, it uses 4 IGBTs in an H-bridge, with power to it
controlled by an SCR, runs a max of 240 volts on the
primary, produces about 36 inch leaders, and apparently is not a DRSSTC. It
produces "safer waveforms"--anyone know what that means?  Does anyone have
any details on its circuit, theory of operation, etc.?  It
sells for about $500 and includes a lifetime repair warranty (a gutsy thing
to do in my opinion).

On the negative side, there are pictures of the leaders from the SSTC-3
jumping to someone's hand and arm, and claiming that it produces much milder
unpleasant reactions than does a DRSSTC or SGTC.  Even though he says one
should not perform that experiment themselves, pictures speak louder than
words and may lead others to try it with unfortunate results.  DON'T DO
THAT!

Anyway, if you know something about this particular SSTC, please share it
with the rest of us.

Thanks,
--Steve Y.