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Ummmmm this is really wierd because when i built it i got about 1/2" streamers on 1st light and hey why dont we communicate with pm or email because im sure we can get this thing to work. And also one more thing to try is to move the antenna closer to the secondary while it is running with a chicken stick and see if you can get any breakout the closer you move the antenna is to the secondary. Also if you start to see a little of breakout on the top of the antenna dont worry because the clamp diodes will take care of it.
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C4 on the schematic is .33uf not 33uf... right?
I ask simply because it says that cap is electrlytic and i have never seen them that freaking small....
Update: I think i may give up because i don't have anything i can do. I have ruined 2 of 4 ucc27322's so i am about to just feed it 120 volts and blow it to smithereens!
ANOTHER update: I have changed my mind once again and i am going to continue. I just really need someone to basically give me EVERYTHING that could be wrong and i will see if any of them work. Steve Ward used a 10nf capacitor. I have a two inch secondary and 2.25 primary. Would i increase the capacitor or decrease?
The circuit works good on a flyback transformer so either i have it so far away from resonance that it will not achieve breakout (and maybe that means the antenna is not receiving a good signal) or i made the circuit wrong(which i checked and i have everything spot on).
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The best thing that you should do right now is to just wind a new secondary just like Steve's. It took about 2 hours for me to wind it with 28g wire so that is probably your best bet on getting this thing to work.
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Well i tried it out on a 4 inch coil with 28 gauge and 16 inches winding length. I used about 9 turns and i ran out of wire. With that the sparks weren't visable.
Update. I am quiting with this coil. I tried everything and nothing works. I tried making the power supply steve used and all it did was blow my ucc. I am out of ucc27322's and i am quiting for good. I am just not cut out for this sstc business. I am just going to make a capacitor out of an old microwave oven cap dielectric and then upgrade to either cde or transparencies for capacitors. Wish me luck.
Oh btw if anyone were kind enough to donate i would continue this project. PFFT! Like anyone donates! Haha i was kiddin' about the donating part!
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Did you say you made it on breadboard? It can be a possibility of you get to many noise on it (to many closer parallel lines), For the primary you can get it to 4 turns.
About SSTC's, I blower 20 IRFP250 until I can make my own schematics of the solid state tesla coil, with a schematics like the steve ones I blow 10 IRFP250 trying to make it correct. And now that is the result : its 20cm sparks to the air, consuming 4A at 127V Mains.
I think its good to you seek the problem in all part of the circuit, its like you have a antena problem (that causes bad frequency feedback) other thing its that a I have said before, If you are making in the breadboard, you wont get to sized sparks because it gets to many noise on IC's
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Need help with steve wards class e sstc.
