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First Sparks On The 10 Minute Design DRSSTC: Safety, Setup and MIDI Music!

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First sparks, lightning bolts and MIDI music played on the Tesla coils. Both the FGL40N120AN TO-247 and 2MBIN50-120 brick IGBT based inverters perform well with around 60-70 cm long sparks! There is still issues like racing sparks, fine tuning of OCD setting and removing sharp points around the primary coil, strike rail and protective shielding,

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Rebuilding the 10 Minute Design DRSSTC: No More TO-247 IGBTs

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In this video I rebuild one of the Tesla coils with IGBT bricks instead of TO-247 devices. I am done with small transistors that can not outlive my abuse. With the new 2MBI50N-120 based inverter we can once again do the static load test and adjust phase lead compensation on the Tesla coil. This is

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Rebuilding the 10 Minute Design DRSSTC, Static Test and Phase Lead Adjustment

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In this video I identify the root cause of the IGBT failures, to a wrong gate driver IC. With the correct gate driver IC, full-bridges repaired with tested IGBTs, we can finally finish the static load test and adjust phase lead compensation on the Tesla coil. This is the 5th article / video in the

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Building the 10 Minute DRSSTC Part 2: Construction and Assembly

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In this video we put together the components, found in part 1, that is needed to build the DRSSTC design that was done in 10’ish minutes. This video focusses on how good looking construction can be done with simple tools. No 3D printer or expensive tools are needed. Imagination and craftmanship is enough to get

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Designing A Complete DRSSTC Tesla Coil In 10 Minutes

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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 5.5 kW ABB ACH550 HVAC Variable Frequency Drive

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Teardown of a ABB 5.5 kW ACH550 HVAC Variable Frequency Drive. HVAC is short for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. In this application I will say its purely marketing, as HVAC industry is mostly based on cheap prices and drives are marketed specifically with low prices to this and maybe focus on high efficiency at

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2 kVA Solar Inverter Teardown, the Mastervolt XS2000

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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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3 kVA Delta Solar Inverter Teardown, the Solivia 3.0 TR

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Teardown of a 3.7 kW peak solar inverter, the Delta Solivia 3.0. It is based on TO-247 MOSFETs for voltage regulator and isolation. The output inverter design uses IGBTs. A secret place for MOSFET and IGBT lovers. If you are looking for other solar inverter types, check out the long list of teardown videos. Firstly

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