The primary goal of this video, is to find the components needed to build the DRSSTC design that was done in 10’ish minutes. The parts are either bought online, like the printed circuit boards, primary / secondary coil and topload. Other parts are found from my boxes of teardown / recycled materials, like the IGBTs, […]
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In this video I challenge myself to design a complete Tesla Coil in 10 minutes! The overall design limits include: DRSSTC topology, less than 1 meter tall and must use as many easy to obtain parts as possible. This is part 1 of a series of videos and articles on the Kaizer DRSSTC VII. As a
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Teardown of a 2.1 kW peak solar inverter, the Sunmaster / Mastervolt XS2000. It is based on TO-247 MOSFETs for voltage regulator and isolation. From the datasheet, it is actually only able to deliver 1500 Watt to the mains connection. Do you know about this secret place for MOSFET and IGBT lovers? Maybe you are
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A teardown of a huge (2 full size 19″ racks) UPS system, the APC SmartUPS VT 40 kVA, a run down of the controller and power electronics of the system. If you like real big UPS systems, you are in luck! I have also done teardowns of the following systems. Teardown of a Eaton PowerWare
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A look at a bag of IGBTs and MOSFETs that I quickly salvaged from industrial electronics. Found in induction cookers, solar inverters, welding machines, car and battery charges. It can also be other common high power electronics with switching inverters. Discussion of salvaging IGBTs/MOSFETs: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=2117.0 These TO-247 IGBTs can be used in a DRSSTC Tesla
A teardown of a Migatronic Pilot 1800, a combined TIG & stick welder. TIG is short for Tungsten Inert Gas and refers to the tip of the welding handle, which is made out of tungsten. A inert gas comes from the handle, to surround the tip and ensure no air is near the welding bath.
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A look at a box of IGBTs and MOSFETs that I have salvaged from household electronics like microwave ovens, induction stoves, solar inverters, welding machines, car and battery charges and other common high power electronics with switching inverters. The TO-247 IGBTs can be used in a DRSSTC Tesla Coil using the free half- and full-bridge
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Part 2: Teardown of the laser scanner module from a Fujifilm FCR XG-1 x-ray image scanner / digitizer. Also known as Computerized Radiography (CR), it fulfills the job of scanning a x-ray exposed image plate. It uses a laser beam to extract each pixel illumination with a photo multiplier tube setup. It can scan 72
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