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MMC calculator added to the online calculators

Mads Barnkob — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:56:55 +0000

I have made a calculator for easily and quickly doing the initial design of the capacitor tank for SGTC, VTTC, DRSSTC and other Tesla coils with a resonant primary circuit. There is 4 basic inputs like capacitance, voltage rating and how many capacitors to use in series or parallel. Advanced inputs is detailed capacitor ratings and a few primary circuit values from your Tesla coil.

I hope you will enjoy this tool as much as it helps me do the quick calculations in the every day Tesla coil design where a online calculator is a little bit closer than all the spreadsheets that are deeply buried somewhere on your hard drive

http://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/calculators/mmc-calculator/

Kaizer DRSSTC I, updated with schematics

Mads Barnkob — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:48:12 +0000

I have uploaded the bridge section schematics for the Kaizer DRSSTC I Tesla coil. The driver section will have to wait for me to find time to draw them on the PC, for now they exist only on paper.

Progress on the Isophon BS35 speakers is going smooth without problems.

A TL494 inverter and current monitor is giving me some trouble at the work bench

4 weeks of vacation ahead of me!

Progress update #2

Mads Barnkob — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:37:59 +0000

Time is flying when life smiles at you and the sun shines on your path!

Spare time to work on my projects have been shallow and most it went on building a pair of Isophon hi-fi speakers with restored units from the 1970′s.

I will return with more projects aimed at beginners in the high voltage hobby and document my current projects

10000 Unique visitors in 9 months!

Mads Barnkob — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:00:44 +0000

I would like to thank all my readers and especially those who leaves comments and questions. Through the last 9 months, since I launched this new site, I have had 10000 unique visitors to my site, it feels great that … Continue reading →

Old articles added to site

Mads Barnkob — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:46:20 +0000

I have uploaded 3 of my older articles and these include

I hope you will enjoy reading these articles, get inspired and hopefully start conducting experiments yourself.

Progress report #1

Mads Barnkob — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:44:09 +0000

Its been too quiet for a long while, so here is a progress report on a few of the projects!

The 2x 30W EL34 tube amplifier is sitting on the work desk with around 120 wires sticking out from sockets and print boards, wiring it up correctly with minimizing magnetic fields from heater wires takes longer than expected.

A coil winder for the 160 mm diameter secondary coil for the DRSSTC have been constructed, its utilizing a geared motor with a variable frequency drive to control the speed and ramp torque, the coming weekend will be used for winding the 2200 windings of 0,25 mm copper wire and varnishing the coil.

More 25 mm diameter brass material is in the house, so the last fittings for the capacitors, resistors and spark gaps for the 600kV Marx generator will be turned on the lathe in the coming weekend while the varnish is drying.

This is it for now, check back for updates or new articles

Work in progress

Mads Barnkob — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:12:29 +0000

Currently there is quite a few projects either on hold or advancing with slow progress. Reasons are the same as always. Lack of time, materials and money Here is a small list of the projects that are currently being worked on or bought materials for, these are projects that will later appear as complete articles.

600 kV Marx Generator (December 2008 – )
Full bridge IXYS 60N60 miniblock IGBT DRSSTC (March 2009 – )
520W SGTC with RSG (July 2008 – )
2x 30W EL34 tube amplifier (July 2009 – )
3500W VTTC with a Q5/2000 tetrode tube (November 2008 – )
TL494 flyback driver (June 2009 – )
4x4x4 Ledcube (September 2009 – )
Various SMPS (October 2009 – )

It is primarily the DRSSTC I put my time into as I have the materials and it is one of my biggest projects to date.

Moving

Mads Barnkob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:08:09 +0000

The idea of this new site is to separate my high voltage and electronic documentation from my personal homepage.

There is quite some work to be done in moving all my articles to this new site. Almost all of the articles are being restructured and will have more information added. Picture layout is also changed for a better overview of the article.

To view all the original articles, visit www.disorder.dk. Once all the articles have been moved, they will be deleted from my personal homepage.