The 60N60 IGBT full-bridge exploded during a small test of playing MIDI on the DRSSTC. I upgraded it to a SKM200GB123 bricks. DRSSTC IGBT explosions are no joke, 12 days before a show. Can you guess the song that was played? DRSSTC IGBT explosion is properly a bit much to say. It was a silent […]
Tesla coil DRSSTC IGBT explosion. 12 days before a show, panic! Read More »
I have had the Loneoceans midi2 controller for a while. I just never got around to put it together. Now that I finally have it boxed up, you can see how that was done here. : https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=114.0 If you want your own MIDI modulator, you can buy it here: http://loneoceans.com/labs/sales/midi2/. Here are 4 videos I
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A new article has been added that describes the thoughts, design, construction and test of a very high impedance primary circuit QCW DRSSTC, where the voltage ramp is coming straight from half wave rectified mains supply and a mains synced interrupter is used to trigger at the right interval. Read it all, see all the
Kaizer DRSSTC IV – A High Impedance Primary Circuit Experiment Read More »
Hello everyone! The comment sections on my website have grown long with questions, advices and solutions. So I have expanded the site with a brand new forum, on a dedicated domain. We are a group of seasoned high voltage and electronics enthusiasts that have created a new high voltage forum and community. A modern forum
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Since Martin from ctc-labs.de decided to close down his website, which was all written in German, I asked him for permission to translate and publish some of his content to keep it online and public for others to use. So here is the translated article about his small and simple analog circuit that can be
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While we had the box open for removing the real-time current control, as you can see in the previous post, I did a walk through of how the coil is put together and what parts have been used. Learn how to build your own Tesla coil and how to make it play music through a
Kaizer DRSSTC III update #7 – Show and tell Read More »
After cutting out the bonding wires to the RTC circuit of the CM600DU-24FA IGBT bricks, which we thought could be one of the reasons that we were not able to trip the 1500 A OCD setting, we had a short test run to witness performance. I will do a video with more details of the real-time
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The first full power light sparks have been flown and the results was more than satisfying! See the videos and pictures in the full article! Learn how to build your own Tesla coil and how to make it play music through a MIDI interrupter that can connect a computer to your Tesla coil in order
Kaizer DRSSTC III update #5 – First full power light! Read More »