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Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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101111 wrote ...
If you are going to use CT then it needs to sense current from the secondary not primary just so you know.
Ah yes, i knew from the beginning, hehe.
I have already put it together, and it works absolutely great. I would always recommend this over antenna.
I also upped the input voltage to its max. I put the bridge rectifier on a heatsink and i connected thee 120vac in to a line filter from a microwave oven.
The sparks are now about 9 inches CW, and they are so got the stainless steel pan i am now using for the topload gets a tiny red spot wherever the spark it coming from. From a distance of about 4-6 feet, the CFL lights in my room light glow, from time to time. The mosfet's heatsink does heat up more, but after 5 or so minutes of running, it is only very slightly warm, maybe a few degrees from room temperature. Sparks should be interesting when i get the interrupter working again. Soon i will place the driver in a shielded box, and the halfbridge in a separate box (i dont have the stuff or funds to get a good box to fit it all).
Video shall be soon.
EDIT: All mosfets are dead. No video. It ran for like 30 minutes in all, then one time i tried to turn it on and it died. I then replaced mosfets (which took about 30 minutes) and then they died the third time i turned it on (the first time the fuse blew almost instantly, it was for 3 amps just for testing, and the second one was 6.3 amps, which ran for awhile, but blew when i tried to bring the arc down to about an inch). So i guess i need a breakout point suddenly, and i am out of good mosfets. I actually need to try the 200v mosfets from Tribologist, but i am not sure if they will withstand it.
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My new SStc.
