Re: ISSTC Components

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <Electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net> 

No.  Steve Ward indeed DID "invent" the ISSTC.  I am pretty sure Mark Barton
didn't have a series tank cap, which is the MAIN difference between an ISSTC
and any normal interrupted tesla coil.  It might be good for you to do an
exhaustive search,  but all you have to do is read Steve's website for a
second and see that he indeed did design and compile the ideas which I would
say was inventing.

Not to mention how he used quotation marks around "invent" which might
suggest that's not exactly what he meant.

Regards - Jim Mitchell
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Subject: Re: ISSTC Components


 > Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
 >
 > On 13 Jun 2004, at 12:00, Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > <snip>
 >  > 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
 >
 >
 >