Re: ISSTC Components

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

On 13 Jun 2004, at 12:00, Tesla list wrote:

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 > I do appreciate what you are doing, but i cant help from voicing my
 > opinion about this.  It would be different if you had bought these
 > parts at discount and resold them, but you are selling samples.  As
 > the "inventor" of the ISSTC, i guess this makes me feel a bit more
 > emotional about this related issue.
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 > Steve Ward

That's a pretty bold claim considering that Mark Barton ran his
MOSFET coil in both CW and interrupted mode years ago. I once thought
that a Marx bank I developed was an innovation since I used chokes
instead of resistors as the charging elements. Then a kind person in
the States gave me a copy of Sargent and Dollinger's "High Power
Electronics" and I saw "my" wonderfully innovative scheme described
in graphic detail and written up long before I hit upon the idea.
That's not to belittle your achievement in any way but just to make
known that an exhaustive search for prior art is not a bad thing
before making claims of originality.

Malcolm