TInselKoil 20: Even Fuller Power -- 1 KiloWatt DC Input

[TinselKoala]

Today I finally got a replacement set of IRFP252 mosfets installed; I remembered that I have these baby moon hubcaps left over from VDG work, so I ditched the toroid and the "capacity pot" as Rosemary called it, and fitted the hubcaps as the topload.

By theory, two things should happen: 1) resonant freq goes down; and 2) more voltage should build in the disruptive discharge mode, so longer sparks.

And so it does. It's beautiful and scary.

I pushed 1.5 kW today; the electrodes melt instantly.

[CarbideTip]

jesus ufo chocolate cake.

[TinselKoala]

overunity strawberry cream pie

You just had to be there.

[CarbideTip]

BTW, Great channel.

Thx TK.

[TinselKoala]

thanks, I hope you enjoy some of my other videos. Many are rather pedantic; you can safely skip many of the Ainslie (electric OU) and Mylow madness. My personal favorites are the alt.snakeoil reports.

[harpbloke]

300w flame, wow, a mighty flame for 300w.couldnt do that with a normal electri heater. thanks for showing

[TinselKoala]

Thanks! There are certainly many that make longer HV sparks, but this one seems to have the best power transfer capability that I have seen in a small tabletop unit.

It's running at 820 kHz give or take, depending on the toroid and the breakout lead and the ground terminal lengths.

I think when it makes full steady corona there's probably a lot of power radiated in RF. This week I plan to take it to the lab and check its radiated power, if I can dig out the right instruments from the mess.

[conandrum74]

That's probably the best built SSTC I have ever seen! Great work.

What frequency?

1KW draw in corona (OU?)?