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So Its been awhile since I was last on here and last time I was i had built a decent size coil (stood 6ft) that had discharges of about 1ft 6".
Since then I have parted the pieces out and sold it, have built some other projects that were fun but they just weren't as fun as this Tesla coil! SOOO I'm back and want to build a bigger one.
The first one I built I had basic plans on what to do and how to build the coil, but this time I don't.
I want to build one that is just like Holy C***. One that maybe produces discharges to about 6ft or something around that. My first one wasn't all that.
I plan on building a switch panel box with this one to control it and would like to make it an audio coil? But the audio part can wait.
Couple of questions I first have is what other kind of transformer can be used besides a NST? What is used to power the big tesla coils that people have built?
If you want it to play music, you must go with a solid-state one (SSTC or DRSSTC).
Well to be perfectly honest, I dont know anything about a solid state.
Ive only built one with a spark gap.
So where would I find some basic information on a solid state?
And also I guess id like to find out if a SGTC and a SSTC are basically the same as far as the primary and secondary coil goes. Does it still use a terry filter?
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Many members here tend to be annoyed when they're answering the same questions over and over.
Spend a couple hours searching these forums, just type in a question, or elements of a question. Chances are, it's been asked, and answered in detail. For quicker searching, google it folowed by "4hv".
It would be very mechanically difficult to configure a SGTC to play music. You'd need a triggered gap or a very sophisticated, RSG with a quick feedback-based motor controller. Overall it would not be worth the time and bottom-up engineering, unless you're in to that.
A SSTC or DRSSTC uses a half or full-bridge solid-state inverter to drive the primary circuit at either the secondary's resonant frequency (SSTC) or the primary's resonant frequency (DRSSTC).
Unlike in a SGTC, primary current rings up slowly from zero as its driven by the inverter. The inverter is controlled by an interrupter, and is driven either in pulses (0 to ~20% duty cycle in some DRSSTC systems), all the way up to continuous or quasi-continuous operation in some SSTC and VTTC systems.
To play music, you've got software, converters, microcontrollers, interrupters, etc. working together, and things get very complex.
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