SSTC Low Power Testing (Smoothed DC)

Here is my SSTC running CW at around 330kHz. power input is 45V at around 10amps. It is still in the testing phase and i need to tune it more.

The secondary is 1000 turns of 32awg wire on a 4" diameter 8" tall pvc pipe. The primary is 9 turns of 1/4" cable. This uses secondary base feedback and a fullbridge of irfp460 mosfets. I am using fullwave DC rectified mains with a large smoothing cap. mosfets do get a bit warm after 5 minute runs, but give off no sensable heat during short runs like in this video. This coil is being made for my graduation project for school. i plan later to put in an interupter and perhaps audio modulate it.

during the begining of the video, i accidentally got the camera too close to the topload and got a deep rf burn from a little metallic sticker on the camera (which still works fine) to my hand, so that's why i turned the camera away haha

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tesla
• coil
• solid
• state
• high
• voltage
• variac
• electricity

[Project52389]

DUDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­E. DON'T BLOW UP THE SCHOOL MAN! You do know everyone is going to think you are a nut and give you an A anyway cause it's dangerous and want it out of the building haha.

[bauerb2]

IM ABSOLUTELY CRAZY, but these are safe as hell just as long as you dont touch the top when it's on.... it's not a bomb...

or is it...........

[TeslaWasHere]

By judging the amount the plasma rises due to heat, I would keep my hand well away from that. I want to estimate at LEAST 30mA RMS when shorting to ground. Nicely done.

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

Real Radio Frequencies are well beyond the range of the human hearing. Whenever I hear that 60Hz, I can't that they know what they are doing. Did you know that impedance matching allows a parallel resonant circuit to feed another.  Even though it is very hard to match impedance for several stages, 36 watts can easily burn just like 1,000. AC isn't going anywhere, just back and forth through the wire and parallel tanks when driven can.

[racerxdl]

Who with 45V you get more sparks than me at 70VDC... I am using a IRFP250. Good work!

[Bigngreen]

schway cool