Re: [TCML] Solid State Spark Gap

[bartb <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

Since you mentioned youtube but didn't link anything, thought I'd do 
that for ya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkWBy-Y0EVs

She runs pretty well I thought, especially in some of the later half of 
the vid. How much cap are you using there?

Take care,
Bart

James Haycraft wrote:
> Hi Brian, Terry Fritz, Antonio and company worked out the circuitry for the
> SISG (Sidac Spark Gap) gap. I’ve built several SISG gap coils and they work
> fantastic. Ratings must be observed however. I had to go to a smaller cap to
> keep the current within reason. I have a utoob vid up of my SISG running on
> my pole xmfr. at 14.4KV. The Dual Resonant  jobs are a switch-mode PS
> driving either a ½ bridge or a full-bridge transistor set up. Generally the
> DR’s use a doubled 240 line for a PS. The SISG uses 1200 volt transistors at
> 1000 amps peak current, each module conducts at 1000 volts. So 11 of them in
> series conducts at 11KV.  James
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