Author name: Mads Barnkob

Electrician, programmer, experimenter and amateur scientist with experience in industry automation, programming and all kinds of high voltage generating electronics. Administrator of https://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk and the high voltage community forum https://highvoltageforum.net

DRSSTC Design Guide Update #3

Chapter 6 of the DRSSTC design guide is now online. The subject is on snubber capacitors and how to find the right capacitance. We calculate the needed snubber capacitance based either on known inductance or a rule of thumb using primary peak current. Learn all about how to build a Tesla Coil in the DRSSTC design

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DRSSTC Design Guide Update #2

Chapter 4 of the DRSSTC design guide is now online, the subject is on DC bus capacitors with a primary focus on the regularly used aluminium electrolytic capacitors. A comparison with film capacitors is made and calculations to help you ensure your energy storage will hold up for your DRSSTC use. DRSSTC design guide 1.

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DRSSTC Design Guide Update #1

The first 3 chapters of the DRSSTC design guide are now online. It is a long journey to read, find documentation and write this guide. It is a work in progress that properly will last for a while before I have all 10 chapters online. I hope you will find this guide good and helpful

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Writing process and site updates

I am currently working on a DRSSTC design guide where I try to put together best practises, lessons learned and explanations to the different solutions used by many people. It is not a from A to Z guide on how to go from ebay to 4 meter sparks, but a hole bunch of snips and

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File archive added to the site

Through this hobby I get by many interesting papers, documents, calculations, manuals, datasheets, designs etc. I do also find stuff, take pictures of stuff and do all kind of other stuff that never really gets big enough or done enough to get its own article on the website. I have so many spreadsheets with calculations

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