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Weston
Sun Oct 05 2008, 03:28AM Print
Weston Registered Member #1316 Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
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Could a 74AC245 chip be used in a tiny solid state tesla coil? The 74AC245 is a Octal Tri-state Bus Transceiver but in beam robotics it is used to form a full bridge motor drive circuit. With 50 ma per full bridge and two full bridges per chip a small tesla coil could be built. For more power some people stack chips with good results. Here is the original article Link2 sorry but you have to find it on the site. So what do you think?
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Ken M.
Sun Oct 05 2008, 04:45AM
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I dought it, the smallest sstc I made, pulled down 4A pretty easily.
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Weston
Sun Oct 05 2008, 04:48AM
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I have made one that ran on less than 15 watts and I archived a fair amount of corona and a very hot burning spark.
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Weston
Mon Oct 06 2008, 06:57PM
Weston Registered Member #1316 Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
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nano tess runs on 2 watts. the chip can run on 6.5 volts and output 200 ma. A bit more than a watt, and that is output.
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101111
Mon Oct 06 2008, 07:55PM
101111 Registered Member #575 Joined: Sun Mar 11 2007, 04:00AM
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Weston wrote ...

nano tess runs on 2 watts. the chip can run on 6.5 volts and output 200 ma. A bit more than a watt, and that is output.

Do you have any links?
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Shaun
Mon Oct 06 2008, 08:18PM
Shaun Registered Member #690 Joined: Tue May 08 2007, 03:47AM
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An SSTC of this size would have a frequency well into the MHz range; you said this IC is commonly used for motor control, where the frequency used is less than 100Hz. Will the chip be able to operate at such a high frequency? Will it even be stable enough in a TC environment to function properly?
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Dylan
Mon Oct 06 2008, 10:02PM
Dylan Registered Member #1024 Joined: Sun Sept 23 2007, 10:56AM
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Build it!!
Let us know :)
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Weston
Tue Oct 07 2008, 12:26AM
Weston Registered Member #1316 Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
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the chip is a Octal Tri-state Bus Transceiver which I means 2 way data transmission which means it should be good in the Mhz range. Go to Solarbiotics.net to see the article. It should be under Beam circuits and then motor drivers.
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Tue Oct 07 2008, 02:06AM
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It seems like you would be a lot better off using a gate driver chip (tc4422, ucc32322, ixdd414 etc) since they will put out considerably more power.
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Weston
Tue Oct 07 2008, 02:27AM
Weston Registered Member #1316 Joined: Thu Feb 14 2008, 03:35AM
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I had a coil like that and it died. That is what nano tess is and it only uses about 3 watts. Also those driver chips are expensive. This could also be used to drive a small camera flash circuit too.
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