Bare SIDAC vs. SIDAC / IGBT Circuit

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Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I compared my new SIDAC / IGBT circuit to a bare SIDAC to see how the 
losses compared.

At low currents the SIDAC was not super lossy.  However at high 
currents, the SIDAC was very lossy and probably would not work for a 
spark gap in a Tesla coil at all.  I wrote up a little blurb here:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/SIDAC-e-Test.pdf

Cheers,

	Terry