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Tesladownunder

Tue Aug 01 2006, 12:46AM

Registered Member #10 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Posts: 1424

Firkragg wrote ...

I think TDU definitely needs a SSTC (maybe a DR after).
Also looking forward big VTTC and CO2 laser 1140483883 10 FT1630 Wink

I didn't even understand the meaning of some titles
''Lifter boat''
''TC as HV earth cap''
''Power of one battery'' - joule theif??
''TC cap in secondary''
''macro pics?''
''refresh water''
''planar antenna''
But I can conclude your polyprojectitis illnes is dire TDU... ;)

I just took this list from one I had and tidied it up but it lost the paragraph tabs.
I wanted to make a boat with self contained HV supply driven forwards by a lifter to use in our pool.
The TC has a HV cap in the earth line of the secondary for high powered sparks when the TC has a ground strike.
The power of one battery is to use a single battery to charge a HV cap to show the instantaneous power. A joule thief unit to drive 24V to run a small HV supply from a photocopier should do.
Macro pics refers to the binocular optics of my 3W ophthalmic laser which I would like to connect to a camera.
I need to replace the DI water in it.
Terry Fritz's planar antenna is to make TC voltage measurements.

You are quite right that I should make a DRSSTC. I had plans to make a small one for a "secret" project which should look very cool and not done before that I know of. I have a good stock of IGBT's up to brick size.

I have got a Laser supply with a couple of very large valves and what looks like a 5kW transformer. It may be able to be pressed into dual VTTC service fairly easily. I need to get the hang of intermediate sized VTTC's before going for a big one using the 30kW rated tube.

CO2 laser is on the backburner as it runs on RF. I do have a 100W RF amplifier that might suit but I have no experience with power RF and it would be a time consuming project although 300W peak power and 100W cts are certainly attractive.

Peter

Steve Conner

Tue Aug 01 2006, 11:17AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

the bike cam video:

:P

I have polyprojectitis too, here they are roughly in order. The results of some of the top ones are needed for the further down ones.

Rewire my home studio setup to get rid of hum and get more tracks working

Order those extra PCBs and gate driver parts that I promised to sell to people :-/

Get Odin finished, especially since someone offered to buy the finished electronics

Make a fibre optic link that carries the three signals used by my DRSSTC driver system down a single fibre (ie interrupter, fine tuner, and DC link voltage control) to make driving Odin a bit safer.

Build another set of electronics for Odin to replace the ones I sold.

Make a fancy powerpoint presentation and give a talk to the uni power electronics group to see if they'll sponsor my DRSSTC work.

Overhaul the forks on my bike

Fix my car stereo, it sounds like poo

Fix up some of the rust on my car and add a fake big bore exhaust and some fog lamps.

Hook a DRSSTC to an electric guitar

Build a nixie clock using Allegro A6810 driver chips

Build the 400W solid-state bass amp that I bought parts for years ago

Have a PCB made for power section of the above and pimp it as a modular power amp

Transplant the guts of my old PC into a 19" rack case I have lying around to make it look 1337

Transplant the guts of a 1GHz Athlon into the case that my old PC guts came out of and give it to my mum

Steal my mum's old PC, put Linux on it and use it as a home web server

Turn the guts of the Tesla-2 into a general purpose 0-5kV DC power supply

Make new primary and secondary coils for my DRSSTC

Do a three-way spark-off between a DRSSTC, a regular spark-gap coil, and Terry's new SISG system, all using the same resonator, to see which is most efficient

Do something cool with the 4-400A tube I just bought from Colin Heath

Build a speaker cabinet and mess around with porting and/or horn loading for more bass.

Terrorize the city with my 3 Barreled 24" Potato Shotgun Truck

Get a life (this comes right at the bottom because I don't really care :P)

Avalanche

Tue Aug 01 2006, 01:35PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

cool, I watched the video

Makes me want to get mine sorted out now and hit the trails.

My polyprojectitus has not been helped by the fact that work just gave me 4 drawer units full of components, from hall effect sensors to power transistors, ttl logic ICs, and even wire perfect for winding a class-e resonator

Marko

Tue Aug 01 2006, 02:22PM

Registered Member #89 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Posts: 3145

Turn the guts of the Tesla-2 into a general purpose 0-5kV DC power supply

cmon, now it looks like you are destroying your projects instead of building them

You killed tesla1, then your legendary big oltc, and ow tesla 2 is coming apart..

I just hope they had a good purpose for dying (PS, don't get it too serious tough, I still like keeping my newbie projects from old times :) )

Video is a bit low resolution and framerate (I couldn't reckongize your swearing

)

From avalanche, I definitely like the SSTC vs cotton wool video..

Alex

Tue Aug 01 2006, 04:29PM

Geometrically Frustrated
Registered Member #6 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 04:18AM
Location: Bowdoin, Maine
Posts: 373

Wow, those are some long lists.

My list, unsorted:

-Finish painting house
-Get laptop
-Get driver's license
-Get (better) job
-Get school funding for wearable computer project
-Build website
-Build omg secret (sort of)

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Tue Aug 01 2006, 05:31PM

Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
Posts: 1735

I guess I'm going to be last to trying out the guitar ---> DRSSTC then.

-finish up sanding and paint on fiberglass costume armour
-fix 3GHz Systron Donner counter

-solve 4x rubiks cube (rest of my life)

-learn Hotel California

-finish technical drafting for my college TC

-Get college TC done

-Put REAL and Useful information about the Transistor on the wiki

-bunch of other things I can't remember now.

Dr. Drone

Tue Aug 01 2006, 07:16PM

Registered Member #290 Joined: Mon Mar 06 2006, 08:24PM
Location:
Posts: 1673

Nik

Wed Aug 02 2006, 01:10AM

Registered Member #53 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638

I have a few projects i want to work on, mostly these ones.

my kW SGTC
Rebuild my vandegraff
Learn enough unix to get a BSD http/ftp server going

Alex

Wed Aug 02 2006, 02:10AM

Geometrically Frustrated
Registered Member #6 Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 04:18AM
Location: Bowdoin, Maine
Posts: 373

nik282000 wrote ...

Learn enough unix to get a BSD http/ftp server going

Wee. Have fun. *reccomends FBSD*

NetBSD is cool too, especially if you want to serve pages from your toaster.

Wilson

Wed Aug 02 2006, 03:48AM

Registered Member #78 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:27AM
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 133

Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...

-solve 4x rubiks cube (rest of my life)

Go for it Hazmatt! It only takes about a week if u can solve the 3x3 - fix the centres, pair the edges, and solve like a 3x3

And there is also a 5x5

As far as my projects go, i've started on alot of things, but i don't recall actually finishing anything...(only been in the hobby for a year)
To do/finish:
-Start DRSSTC
-Improve audio mod SSTC
-Get induction heater self resonant
-Build a mains boost converter
-PFC (or SS variac)
-Surge limiter
-Induction CG
-Finish my planned 3 stage CG
-Finish ball mill
-Fix computer
-Clean out garage
-Learn to play piano
-Learn to olve the 5x5 rubiks cube in under 4mins
-HeNe laser

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