One more thing. My house doesn't have properly grounded mains (outlets have
2 plugs only), but I have a grounding rod installed for TC work. I can just
use an adaptor and wire the ground plug to that, right?
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:12 PM, canalray--- via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The manual for the Tesla 1 seems to be fairly well done. What is the
> problem with including a schematic in the plans book? Certainly cost can't
> be an issue here.
>
>
> Tom Vales
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 8:06 pm
> Subject: [TCML] Support our desktop SSTC Kickstarter campaign!
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> We (oneTesla <http://onetesla.com/about>) have just launched a Kickstarter
> campaign
> <
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetesla/tinytesla-the-little-singing-tesla-coil-anyone-can
> >
> for a pair of coil kits that might interest you - tinyTesla, a small MIDI
> SSTC, and oneTeslaTS, a desktop DRSSTC.
>
> There's a lot of info on the Kickstarter page, but here's a summary of the
> cool features the coils have:
>
>
> - Both kits are MIDI controlled; oneTeslaTS is controlled via the
> traditional computer->MIDI Adapter->Interrupter pathway, while
> tinyTesla's
> interrupter connects via USB and shows up as a USB-MIDI adapter. Both
> interrupters are fiber-optically isolated.
> - Zero tuning required. In particular, TS's secondaries are all
> identical down to the last turn, and the primaries are spirals on a 4oz
> PCB, so each and every coil should perform identically.
> - Both coils are super-compact, mostly thanks to the fact that our
> coil-winding partner can wind very high fill factor secondaries TS has a
> 6.5" secondary and 6"x1.5" topload that resonates at 250KHz, and tiny
> has a
> 3.5"x3" secondary that runs at around 450KHz unloaded.
> - We tried hard to keep the primary current down on TS; it sits at
> around 200A right now, which is not too hard on the 180A-rated IGBT's.
> This
> should give a longer lasting coil.
>
> Thanks in advance for your support, and feel free to ask questions!
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