Re: [TCML] charging reactors

["Roger Smith" <rwsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use a home made, 6 Hennery  charging reactor for my DC resonant charging 
Tesla Coil.   It is basically just several thousand turns of 24 gage magnet 
wire on an "I" core and I use many layers of packaging tape between each 
winding layer for insulation.   This is fairly inexpensive way to make a 
choke but it is tedious.

Here is a link to some pictures. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29248051@N02/


Roger
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From: "jimlux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 1:56 PM
Subject: [TCML] charging reactors


> So, if one needed to build or buy a dozen charging inductors for a 
> resonant charged spark gap coil, where would one look..
>
> It's for an application where there's multiple coils being charged from a 
> common HV DC bus.
>
> Probably need 5-10 H, and it needs to handle a few hundred mA to amp (e.g. 
> 10kW @ 10kV is an amp), and, of course, have a 10-20kV voltage rating.
>
> I'm looking for ideas that are either off-the-shelf or made from off the 
> shelf things (e.g. no scrounging a half dozen MOTs and then sawing an air 
> gap and rewinding it)
>
> (or, some other clever scheme to charge the primary tanks of multiple 
> coils)
>
> Jim
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