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Registered Member #195
Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 08:27PM
Location: Berkeley, ca.
Posts: 1111
I think that what has been done with tesla coils hear is evolutinary from NSTC's from the days when I started out. I have been plucking around with teslas off and on for 25y and have lurned more in the past year and a half than I ever have. I like the fact that I can finaly combine a career of electronics and pulse power together with teslas. What the TCBOR did in the 90's with magnifiers and the tesla news letters was the evolution of the 90's and with the internet who knows were it will go in the 21st century.
By the way does anybody know if the Tesla Builders of Richmond are still around.
Registered Member #103
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845
I've been lying in bed all night awake, because it's too hot to sleep.
Anyway, I was trying to visualise a CW-DRSSTC - such large semiconductors in a tiny package, able to survive the full resonant rise in the primary of a large coil. Powered by home nuclear reactor. A sea of plasma!
Working with my hands and unwinding, Tesla coils just fit the Nack!
I thought you literally meant sitting unwinding a tesla coil... i'm really tired
Registered Member #146
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
Location: Austin Tx
Posts: 1055
Anyway, I was trying to visualise a CW-DRSSTC - such large semiconductors in a tiny package, able to survive the full resonant rise in the primary of a large coil. Powered by home nuclear reactor. A sea of plasma!
The limit is essentially the resistance of your wires. That governs the steady state current (which is likely very high, considering its pretty easy to get very low resistance wiring). Most people probably cant supply enough power from their house to do something like this on a large scale (maybe no more than 2 foot sparks).
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What would be the benefit of running a CW-DRSSTC? The DRSSTC is by its nature a peak power system designed to deliver the maximum amount of energy in the shortest amount of time possible. Running CW would contradict this.
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
EastVoltResearch wrote ...
However, show them a Tesla coil in action, and watch their jaws hit the floor!
When I've done Tesla coil demos, people look surprised for a bit, but after a minute they always ask the same question: "What does it do?" And I have to answer: It doesn't have any practical use.
So I guess I either built it to learn about power electronics or to show off. By the time I've finished the DRSSTC I'm working on just now, I think I'll have learnt everything I'm going to learn from Tesla coils, and any further coils I built would just be for showing off.
As for the future of coiling, I think Terry's IGBT/SIDAC spark gap replacement deserves some serious attention. As in, "Everybody go and build one right now"
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Future of Tesla coiling
Since I work with computers and chips all day at work, I need a break and go home and unwind with Tesla Coils. 
