Re: Quad SSTC

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Original poster: "Adam Horden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <electronicmadman-at-blueyonder.co.uk>

Hi,

This is directed towards Alan.

Would you release the PIC source for you Tesla Coil (Quadratic Mutation)?

Thanks,
Adam
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Subject: Re: Quad SSTC


 > Original poster: "Adam Horden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<electronicmadman-at-blueyonder.co.uk>
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > Sorry the video was taken offline after my ISP said I wa abuseing
bandwith!
 >
 > If any one can host it then I would be very gratefull,
 >
 > Adam Horden
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 > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:27 PM
 > Subject: Re: Quad SSTC
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > Thanks Alan.  I've been waiting to get details from this coil as I did
see
 >  > Adam Horden's video of the quad coil in action.
 >  >
 >  > Now you are playing "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" theme, but are
 > you
 >  > feeding that directly with an audio source, or actually programming
that
 >  > audio modulation
 >  > with the PIC itself.  It sounds like it the tones were generated
directly
 > by
 >  > the PIC itself.  Also, what type of power supply are you using with
this
 >  > glorious creation?  Judging by
 >  > the video, it does appear there is considerable line frequency ripple
 > making
 >  > the streamers longer than they would if pure DC was fed.
 >  >
 >  > Anyways, it was a very impressive demonstration and was the actual
thing
 >  > that inspired me to get off my butt and finish my audio modulation
 >  > conversion on my SSTC.
 >  > Good job and thanks!!!
 >  >
 >  > Another idea I had was to hook up a keyboard to my SSTC.
 >  >
 >  > The Captain
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >  > Basicaly its 4 coils arranged in a square each driven by a separate
 >  >  > ful bridge driver. The drivers in turn are controlled by a PIC
 > processor,
 >  >  > By altering phases and using intermitant modes. You can arrange to
have
 >  >  > sparks going
 >  >  > A-B
 >  >  > C-D
 >  >  > or
 >  >  > A-B
 >  >  > ! !
 >  >  > C-D
 >  >  >
 >  >  > or forming a square, or diagonaly
 >  >  > or everything at once
 >  >  > A-B
 >  >  > !X!
 >  >  > C-D
 >  >  >
 >  >  > At present I'm limited to running at under half power - it needs a
25A
 >  > 400V
 >  >  > DC
 >  >  > supply to run properly.  It will also play tunes - though I
restricted
 > my
 >  >  > self to the
 >  >  > 5 note phrase from "close encounters".  Unfortunately it will not
yet
 >  >  > function
 >  >  > as a warp engine :(
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Here's a use for all those PCB's you've been buying.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Alan Sharp
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >