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HV Enthusiast
Fri Aug 18 2006, 12:09AM
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Just a measely 4MHz. . .
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ragnar
Fri Aug 18 2006, 01:33AM
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If you can get it all tuned nicely, the IRF520 will allow for 24V supply with a little overhead. Mmm, portable.

Did I tell you about my idea for plasma-speaker earbud-headphones? =P
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Wilson
Fri Aug 18 2006, 01:40AM
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I don't think anyone would want 2000+ degree plasma and high voltage on the sides of their heads BP wink lol

Is the coil going to be audio modulated EVR?
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Fri Aug 18 2006, 12:09PM
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Here are the latest plots we took this morning of the IRF520 driver stage. Looks good now and the IRF520 isn't even warm to touch when driving the high power stage.


1155902990 15 FT14743 081806 Waveform01

1155902990 15 FT14743 081806 Waveform02

1155902990 15 FT14743 081806 Waveform03
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ragnar
Fri Aug 18 2006, 12:54PM
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Very nice, looking forward to seeing the sparks =-)
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Marko
Fri Aug 18 2006, 04:10PM
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blackplasma wrote ...

If you can get it all tuned nicely, the IRF520 will allow for 24V supply with a little overhead. Mmm, portable.

Did I tell you about my idea for plasma-speaker earbud-headphones? =P


As I figured out for now this shown circuit is a driver for another high-power mosfet in class E.
CIrcuit seems to closely resemble richieburnett's class E coil.
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HV Enthusiast
Mon Aug 21 2006, 12:45PM
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Having some more fun with the coil this morning.
Got the final power stage running and have a weird problem . . . Seems the drain waveform looks class E, but is only turning off every other
waveform, even though the gate looks pretty solid.

Any ideas? (scratching my head . . .)


1156164306 15 FT14743 Pastage01
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Marko
Mon Aug 21 2006, 12:57PM
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I get that if I tune LC to harmonic and overcouple. (but this may not be the same since my circuit was somewhat different from richie b.)

Class E stuff usually just needs a ton of tuning and twiddling until everything settls up.
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ragnar
Mon Aug 21 2006, 01:06PM
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You'll find just changing the frequency minutely may be sufficient to fix this.

IIRC you may need to _increase_ the frequency to rectify this... and if that's going to fix it, you'll find a sweet/sensitive spot at which you get the correct count of peaks appearing.

Try adding a little more(--?) capacitance to the shunt, whilst also twiddling that frequency ever so slightly. Try lowering the coupling a little, too.
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