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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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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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I hope to learn even more about electronics in 2015, I hope I get to build more projects and I hope that I have the time to publish it all for you to read, comment and build for yourself. Happy new year 2015!
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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The radiation monitoring is back up and running after a small upgrade of the 400V inverter choke which should make it run completely stable again. I repaired my 15 year old Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator and it is almost as good as new, taking its hard life in a school bag into account this is
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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
MMC calculator added to the online calculators Read More »
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
Kaizer DRSSTC I, updated with schematics Read More »
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. Most of it went into 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
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