Re: TSG with DC?

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

You are quite correct, the coil is a very few u-h. I filter the dc with a
1/2 meter x 1 meter 60 mil doublesided PC board capacitor.My power supply is
the only high voltage supply I use for several different tasks including my
TC.

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:06:37 -0700
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> Subject: Re: TSG with DC?
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> Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Is your DC supply filtered (a microfarad or more across the output)?  Or do
> you just have the bare rectifiers on your NST?  Your design is indeed
> jaw-dropping as your "reactor" can only be a few micro-Henry.
> --Steve
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>> Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
>> 
>> S>J>Y>: You are correct. You must extinguish your arc by desigh with a DC
>> coil. I use a series coil to disconect my power from my arc. There has
> been
>> a lot of people say it dosent work because the coil is not big enough to
>> work at low frequency, but they dont look at the frequency of the rise
> tine
>> of the arc. I use 15t of wire 3/4 in dia 6 in long coil in my power supply
>> line as a series disconect choke. When the capacitor charges the arc
> fires,
>> the coil reacts to the current and disconects the arc from the power
> supply.
>> The arc discharges the capacitor, and the arc stops. Then the coil
> conducts
>> recharging the capacitor. I have a 260 pps fire rate with a 15kv 60ma NST
>> through a rectifier as my full wave power supply. Some one forgot to tell
>> the bumble bee he couldnt fly so he dose. My unit fires well No one told
> it
>> it couldnt. Robert  H.
>> 
>>> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:04:31 -0700
>>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>> Subject: Re: TSG with DC?
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>>> Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:15:56 -0700
>>> 
>>> Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
>>> <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>
>>> 
>>> Mike,
>>> 
>>> Yes, timing can be whatever you want.  But how do you get the gap to
>>> extinguish?  DC obviously doesn't have a zero crossing to stop gap
>>> conduction, so you have to quench it some other way.  You can have a
> power
>>> supply that "folds back" to zero when the gap fires - not an easy thing
> to
>>> design.  I think Marco's 10 KV output switching power supply may behave
> that
>>> way.  Or perhaps a strong blast of air will "blow out" the gap plasma.
> I
>>> have yet to try a TSG with my DC powered TC.  If others have, please
> share
>>> your results.
>>> 
>>> --Steve
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:40 PM
>>> Subject: Re: TSG with DC?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Original poster: "Michael H Nolley by way of Terry Fritz
>>> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nolleym-at-willamette.edu>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If the TSG were to be used on a DC coil, the timing issue would be
>>>> non-existent, am I
>>>> correct?  If so, how configurable could you make the TSG bps? It would
> be
>>>> cool if you could
>>>> adjust the breaks between 1 and several hundred bps.
>>>> 
>>>> --Mike
>>>> 
>>>> 
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