New sstc.

Some specs. 80vac input, fullwave rectified smoothed, half bridge, interrupted.

The topload (more of a breakout point) is a hard drive disk platter. I use it instead of just a wire because it looks cool :P. The halfbridge and the halfbridge caps where from TeslaWasHere. Thanks Sam, works great. I vary the duty cycle and freq in the video a few times, and i had an arc jump from me to the pot which made the frequency go really high at the end. it happened twice :P.

I put a large topload on it yesterday and set the breakrate and duty cycle very low and i got about 8-10 inch sparks with 80vac in, because it was low breakrate and low duty cycle with a large toroid. Unfortunately my mosfets died because i did not tune according to the extra capacitance so too much current i suppose.

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[happyfox711]

COOL EXPERIMENT, BUT CAN YOU PLEASE STOP CALLING IT A SSTC - SOLID STATE TESLA COIL, LIKE THERE EXISTED A TESLA COIL WITH MOVING PARTS AS WELL... ITS A STUPID NAME THAT APPEARED ON YOUTUBE ONLY AND IT MAKES YOU SOUND VERY UNPROFESSIONAL. THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE TERM SOLID STATE WAS TO DIVIDE THE TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME THING, ONE WITH MOVING PARTS, ONE WITHOUT. LIKE A HARDDRIVE F.EX. B UT A TESLA COIL CANT BE MADE WITH MOVING PARTS SO OF COURSE IT IS SOLID STATE! SO STOP SAYING THAT

[triggerhappy77707]

@happyfox711 You should really do research before you comment on youtube. Solid state refers to the fact that semiconductors are used, it is a very widely used term. Solid state is only semiconductors, vacuum tubes and spark gaps are not solid state.

From a cursory glance at your youtube channel, i can see you must have some interest in Nikola Tesla, but that does not translate to electronics experience... I have been into it for 4 years, i would know if i was using incorrect terms.

[nelsonmachupa]

that is wicked awesome. But sooo noisy... Seen people playing music threw these thing son here, you should give that a shot :P

[triggerhappy77707]

@nelsonmachupa I have done that, check my videos, there are 2 different ones. Watch the more recent one... It is using a different more complicated circuit.

[c0d5fan]

whats up ma nigga arc lol its brokegerzilla :D

[triggerhappy77707]

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You suck ,,!,, :D. BTW, you wanna talk about me being a Tesla coil nerd, look at your name on youtube. COD 5 fan... You are a gamer-nerd :). Not to mention, you are always playing on Xbox360 Live.

[jeffddow]

@happyfox711 actually theres a thing called a rotary spark gap ;)

[leerman22]

Tesla didn't have semiconductors, he had spark gaps. what do we call his tesla coil?

[youtuubbguy66]

Wow, cool effect! It looks like a fire.

[sprogdiklis]

give me schematic please ;)

[VivaMessico]

@KsKePo that "purple thing" is plasma discharges and its not a good idea to touch it

[KsKePo]

is that purple thing dangerous?