Re: High Power SSTCs - Need help and opinions

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Original poster: "Chris Arnold" <chris_arnold-at-msn-dot-com> 

Dan,

If you wouldn't mind having two things to tune, the resonant circuit would 
be a good idea.  I would imagine that you already have tank caps and air 
variable capacitors laying around from your experiences with tube coils.
I'm going to in the near future try running the original Plasmasonic with a 
tuned primary and see what I can get done.  Just need to be real careful 
that the voltage doesn't get out of hand in the primary circuit.

Chris Arnold


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>Subject: Re: High Power SSTCs - Need help and opinions
>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:54 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Gavin Dingley" <gdingley-at-ukf-dot-net>
>
>Hi Dan,
>to increase the current/voltage in the primary you could use resonance. If
>you put a capacitor in parallel with the primary coil, you can reduce the
>inductive reactance to a resistive surge impedance. If you put a capacitor
>in series, the voltage across the primary will be magnified. Of course you
>are then fixed to one frequency and the whole system would be similar to a
>spark gap TC in set-up, i.e tuning and retuning to compensate for mutual
>inductance ect.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Gavin