RE: First Light....

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Original poster: "Cameron B. Prince" <cplists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Chip,

Man, you are a brave soul to connect any type of Tesla coil to a computer in
any manner...

Looks like you are off to a good start. Keep in mind that the beauty of a
staccato controller is that the pulses are timed with the peak of the AC
sine wave. You won't get this timing using other methods.

Good luck,
Cameron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:07 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: First Light....
>
> Original poster: "Chip Ford" <chipford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Got first light tonite from my single 833a VTTC. It has a few
> problems. Still waiting on some parts but, It works pretty good.
> Notice the leak at the top of the feedback coil. I can only power up
> to about 50% on my variac now with that going on...Looking to rebuild
> on a compact base soon.
>
> I also had it running last night in a staccato mode of some sort
> using my computers parallel port, a 3055 transistor and a large SCR.
> This is why I ask the question about the SCR's. You remember, SCR's
> are either off or on? Correct or not? I then change over and was
> using a small LED blinking curcuit I have and a 9 Volt Battery.
>
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0iwnxCC42w>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
> =p0iwnxCC42w