Re: Ignition Coil for DC Resonant charging

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>


Steve,

No experience with ignition coils, but I have used 3 and 4 MOT secondaries
in series successfully with a DC resonant charging circuit.  You will find
that the more inductance you have, the slower you can run your ASRG before
it power arcs due to the gap dwell time being too long.  I believe ignition
coil secondaries would overheat from the current going through them.
--Steve Young

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Subject: Ignition Coil for DC Resonant charging


 >
 > Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi folks
 >
 > After death of my NST I thought out a new power supply for my coil. I
 > wanted something more adventurous than just another NST. My idea is to use
 > a MOT with voltage quadrupler to give ~10kV DC and then a DC resonant
 > charging circuit and 300bps ARSG. I thought of using an auto ignition
coil,
 > or several in series/parallel, for my charging choke. Does anyone have
 > information on ignition coils, like secondary inductance, volt-second
 > capacity, and so on?
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Steve C.
 >
 >
 >
 >