Hi Justin,Similarly on the 4th of July, I built a suicide cage for little fun. The cage was tied to RF ground at the coils base. Had no problems at all with the sparks hitting the cage. Here's a little youtube video since I have really shown the TCML yet anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvDouQK-NioHowever, after about 2 hours of coil fun and fireworks, I ran the coil one last time at higher power and without the cage. All went ok for a while and then a strike came back and hit the strike ring and also the primary which at the time was not covered. Ended up blowing both CM300's (ouch!).. hehe
Take care, Bart On 7/20/2011 11:01 AM, Justin B wrote:
Hello steve, I recently tried it my self. I put a grounded 24" x 24" grid about 25" from my DRSSTC and just let the thing rip. My scope, unless it was induction interference, was showing I was running 800A. I question if it was fake, induced fields from the primary. With an induction setup, I made the OCD kill out at 700A. But the scope was showing full-view 800A. Im sure it was due to fake inductance, but I'll invest. Other than that, I did a decent run on a grounded object and things didnt blow up. I included a video link below to my test, it went fine for my largest test yet, Was sure nice and loud for my first ever DRSSTC. The primary was not tune at all, I just randomly stuck a tap in and powered it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnIW3tzXcNk Thanks for the help!
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