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Yea, was just using the bread board since its much easier to fix parts if need be rather then soldering them all in a board then having to fix something later.
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I would recommend adding more vias to your board, since there are huge amounts of current flowing through them. To fix this revision, just drill a bunch of holes and solder some between the top/bottom layers.
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Looking closer, you aren't using the vias for carrying current but rather just a place to solder in a wire? In that case you should be fine, just make sure you solder the wire to both sides or the trace on the bottom won't really be helping.
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Yea I solder both sides where I can, the kvXX diodes that are vertical are only soldered on side but hats only because i cant fit the solder or the soldering iron under them, but everywhere else I have both sides soldered.
EDIT: So I finished all the wiring and the Full-bridge works fine I can get the secondary to reasonate, but I can max it out at 130V pk-pk but at that point I thinjk the GDT starts to make noises or something starts to make noises, and I might still be getting Noise on the OCD even tho its setting off the Fet and causing it to interrupt the signal. Any ideas on getting it to arc again? aside from stepping up the voltage?
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Yea...kind of a triple post, but at leastthis time I have a signifacant update.
I finally got it working....somewhat, turns out that Gator climps are EVIL for TC work, just using 2 of them for the primary was serverly limiting the current. I removed them and now I can light up a neon sign and draw a small arc made a video to illustrate what I'm talking about I also though about the whole gaqtor clamp evil comment, so I switched my power gators to just a standard power wire and now I get longer arcs that are hotter, but they still don't start themselves .
Also The OCD works fine, the only issue I think I have now is that the whole power system draws might try to draw more then 7A's and is causing my 24v supply to overload and trip the safety shutoff.
I have tryed adjusting the primary and secondarys coupling, but neither actually gives me indepentant self sustaining streamers, so My question to the experienced folks, What might I need to do to get streamers to form, even if they might only be 1-5", considering 5"+ is all I'm looking for.
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Ken M. wrote ... What might I need to do to get streamers to form, even if they might only be 1-5", considering 5"+ is all I'm looking for.
Try raising your 24 volt bus voltage, though i would have thought you would have gotten something like a 1 inch spark to a grounded rod with 24 volt bus.
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