Re: SSTC design procedure

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

Hi Dan,
         Thanks again. I appreciate your taking the time.

Malcolm

On 17 May 2004, at 18:55, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation"
 > <dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com>
 >
 > Well, there is a bit of design involved.  For this particular ISSTC, I
 > took the following steps:
 >
 > A.  I had never seen a six inch secondary before, and to be honest, I
 > just wanted to see what a six inch secondary would look like.  So i
 > decided to wind
 >        a six inch secondary.
 >
 > B.  Next, I already had a 20" x 5" toroid which was what I planned on
 > using.
 >
 > C.  Now, I had a goal at what frequency I wanted to operate.  I chose
 > 100kHz and designed my six inch secondary (with 20" x 5") to be 100kHz
 > determing dimensions based on what wire size i had available etc....
 >
 > D.  Now I worked on primary design.  I decided I wanted a 10 turn
 > primary. I then figured out a size of capacitor (primary) i would need
 > if tapped at 8 turns.  This would give me plenty of turns in either
 > direction to tune. My capacitor size was a 0.100uF .   With the 0.33uF
 > capacitors I had, actual primary capacitor turned out to be 0.11uF at
 > 12kV.
 >
 > E.  Next, I just built it.
 >
 > So, yes there is rhyme and reason to how i selected secondary and
 > primary components.
 >
 >
 >  > Thanks for your insights. I gather then that arbitrariness is still
 >  > very much in the foreground. Apart from the tuning requirement, >
 >  little else seems to be suggested in what you wrote. For example, no
 >  > reason is given to choose particular inductances, a particular coil
 >  > length etc. > > Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. > > Malcolm >
 >  > > > >
 >
 >
 >