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The picture of the SGTC, is a coil driven by a flyback from an old tube TV where I was pushing close to 40kv through the primary
Yes well that's why that version worked then
The picture of the SGTC, is a coil driven by a flyback from an old tube TV where I was pushing close to 40kv through the primary
Yes well that's why that version worked then
So how many turns do you have on the secondary?
Adam
I wanna say roughly 1200 turns on 2" PVC. I don't remember right off the top of my head, but I'll be home in a few hours I'll be able to find out then.. Another question.. With a circuit such as this, does it require resonate caps? Or would that only be for the SGTC?
I don't know much about Tesla coils. They look like just a basic transformer with effectively an air core. So yes I guessing they would need to be tuned, and that's both primary and secondary. You don't have any core material to help with energy transfer, so you need to resonate the circuit to give a higher voltage across the transmitter coil and the receiver coil time to pickup the energy from the transmitter coil.
I don't know if the secondary coil has enough capacitance between the windings and then you just match the primary to this and this will determine your resonant frequency. But just looking at the ratio of windings your going to need a much higher voltage on the primary. Let me see if I can work something out for you.
Adam