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This past week, we finished building the final build prototype of our commercial DRSSTC system, the miniBrute system. Two of these units will be extensively tested in the coming months and the third one will be sent out as a demo unit to a firm overseas. Stay tuned for actual arc photos once we fire these babies up. They will be officially unveiled to the Tesla community at the 2006 RATCB this year.
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I've never really thought post spamming would give you free stuff. Anyways, those do look awesome and well built. I always saw those on your site and wondered if you had given up work on them or what. Do you have any guesses as to how long period time they can be run safely or what the cost might be?
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Thanks. We've built up several iterations of prototypes, mostly just "ugly" benchtop stuff, so these are the first form-fit-function units.
These are designed to be run continously as long as necessary, or at least until the thermal sensor trips. There is a pretty powerful cooling fan inside this unit and both a large heatsink (power electronics) and the MMC are within the flow of the fan, so it should remain quite cool, although we shall see how it runs for real.
As far as pricing and availability goes, not sure whats going on with that yet.
Tonite i plan on first light testing, so hopefully all goes as planned . . . keeping my fingers crossed . . .
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Don't make a remote controller available just yet, sell a few of the coils and advertise the controller seperate from the coil like this: "Tired of reaching under 100,000 volt arcs to turn off you tesla coil? Sick of electrocution and RF burns on you back? Then we have the innovation for you...." You could also make an Executive Style coil, with a polished redwood front and calender to schedule runs.
How's current draw out of the wall? Will you be able to run off a five amp line?
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Don't make a remote controller available just yet, sell a few of the coils and advertise the controller seperate from the coil like this: "Tired of reaching under 100,000 volt arcs to turn off you tesla coil? Sick of electrocution and RF burns on you back? Then we have the innovation for you...." You could also make an Executive Style coil, with a polished redwood front and calender to schedule runs.
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The remote controller plugs into the jack on the front of the panel. This prototype will still require an external variac for bridge power, but the final unit will use no variac, and use pulsewidth to control power output vs. voltage control.
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DRSSTC III System - Final Prototypes and FIRST LIGHT!!!
