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Marko

Sat Sept 08 2007, 10:34PM

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Meh, I understood it as you are just selling a set of PCB's.. don't you have more of those boards to pull out from somewhere? ;) Or everything but resonator is going too?

ragnar

Sun Sept 09 2007, 01:33AM

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"World's most overkill flyback driver"... yes.

The semiconductors are bigger than the flyback, Steve! Awesome stuff =-)

Steve Conner

Mon Sept 17 2007, 12:57PM

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Well, I now have a firm offer of money to complete this project, and a place for it to run when it's finished, so we are back on! I mostly stuffed another PLL driver board this weekend, and identified some suitable parts for a fibre optic link.

The plan is to fire it up at Cambridge, maybe using someone else's resonator and primary coil, to prove it works before handing over to the "customer". Of course, that's assuming that it *does* work! But I'll worry about that when the time comes.

Marko

Mon Sept 17 2007, 02:01PM

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You said you dropped and damaged the resonator.. but is it that bad that you can't run nor fix it?

Any pics of that?

Steve Conner

Mon Nov 12 2007, 04:35PM

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Well, unfortunately I had to let down the guys who wanted to buy it, due to being too busy at work to finish it on time, and I had to miss Cambridge to get my wisdom teeth extracted! :( When I thought about it more, I really don't want to sell it anyway...

So the project is still no further on, except that I got a NST and tested the gate driver isolation barriers to 2kV peak for 5 minutes. All four of them passed. I also nearly finished stuffing another PLL driver board.

Marko, the resonator isn't too badly damaged and could easily be fixed, the problem just now is just a lack of time to work on it, and I don't really have a place to fire it up safely either. If it works, I expect it would spark at least 7ft, and if it doesn't, pieces could fly even further! Not really a good toy for a top floor apartment ;)

Marko

Sat Nov 17 2007, 08:56PM

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Steve: I completely understand you - having ditched your car, I don't even know how would you transport it. And it's apparently not something you'd like to run in your apartment.

You don't have any kind of terrace on the top roof or like?

But your apparent loss of appetite for coiling... it's just too much work?

I can't really imagine how you feel... after all the years, OLTC's and everything - I may just be too-young-and-hot yet.

For example I'm supposed to be studying now, but can't because I'm supervising the coil winder and writing this. I have tons of unfinished projects dwelling all around...

I wonder if you could just have gone for some smaller scale coils (which can be very fun too).

I'd really like to se something from you since the forum is sort of dying out lately... just compare it to archives!

Regarding odin... do you guys happen to have some kind of lab, university or school or etc. you could keep him in and work? I don't know if that's an odd question.

Marko

Steve Conner

Sat Nov 17 2007, 10:48PM

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Hey Marko,

Thanks for asking! :P I did most of my coiling when I was a student and living at home with my parents. I had loads more spare time and energy because I didn't have to work for a living, and a big workshop in the basement and a garden to try things out that might catch fire...

I'm lucky to now have an engineering job where I make stuff for a living, but after a while I found that I couldn't be bothered trying to make even more stuff when I got home in the evenings. I still love engineering and I'm determined to make a career out of it, but I just can't do it every hour of the day!

The projects I've done at work are better than anything I've ever worked on here, but I can't talk about them since they're commercially sensitive.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, yes, I am probably getting too old for it, and it's up to people like you to carry on what we started! :P

Dr. SSTC

Fri Aug 15 2008, 11:10AM

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lol isnt that one of those satanist things that your doing with your hand

Anyways that coil is great too bad you cant finish it

uzzors2k

Fri Aug 15 2008, 04:41PM

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Lol, it's just a "this rocks" hand sign.

Any chance you'll be continuing with the coil Steve?

Steve Conner

Sat Aug 16 2008, 08:11PM

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I don't really have any desire for a big DRSSTC now, or anywhere to run one safely if I did, so this project is shelved indefinitely :P The H-bridge looked a bit dicey anyway.

And yes, I was just trying to express how metal my H-bridge was

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