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Re: SISG first sparks!
Original poster: "Karl L." <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Terry, Gerry, all;
If the SISG if it works as well as we all hope, it will suddenly
give a new lease on life to all of those MOT's we we have laying around.
Couldn't you connect the cores of two MOT's together, and bring out
the HV secondary leads to double the voltage, and then make a
full-wave bridge rectifier using two HV diodes on those leads in a
center-tapped rectifier design? If that works, we may not need those
hard to find NST's anymore.
Keep up the great innovations Terry!
Karl
On May 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Great job Terry,
Whats determining the 60BPS?? I would presume that you are full
wave rectified. Can your tranny recharge the DC cap in a 1/4
cycle??? If so, I would think you would be at 120BPS.
When you have a bunch of SISGs in series, and the voltage reaches a
level where say one SISG fires, this results in a cascade firing of
the other SIGSs. Question is, once the SIDACs fire on a subsequent
SISG, how long does it take for the IGBT to turn on??? Im wondering
if the source to drain voltage can get beyond spec due to the
cascading effect before the IGBT turns on.
Gerry R.
Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
I wired up some odds and ends and put the gap on a coil:
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/SISG-006.jpg
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/SISG-007.jpg
http://hot-streamer.com/temp/SISG-008.jpg
The firing voltage is 1800V and it is running about 60BPS. The arc
to ground is 5 inches.
The coil is 150kHz and the primary cap is 150nF so the bang energy
is 0.243 Joule. So its about 14.6 watts. The old IGBT got just
barely warm and the new one stayed cool (no heatsinks).
This system was very far from optimal, but it did make nice sparks
with the new gap ;-)) When I get a lot more IGBTs, I can run it at
100 times the power ;-)))
Cheers,
Terry