Re: [TCML] Solid State Spark Gap

["McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>]

Great video - very impressive.
Thanks for sharing. 

Dan
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From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bartb
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:41 PM
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Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [TCML] Solid State Spark Gap

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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