Re: Terry's DRSSTC - First light ;-))

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Original poster: Liviu Vasiliu <teslina@xxxxxxxxx>

Cool Terry!!
Congratulations for a good looking and working
project!
Do the IGBT heat up?

vasil
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>
--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: Terry Fritz
> <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I hauled the thing over to Jerry's house tonight to
> run it at full power!!
>
> Works great!!
>
> Pretty pictures from handycam video (forgot to take
> good pics...)
>
>
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-01.jpg
>
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-02.jpg
>
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-03.jpg
>
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-04.jpg
>
> It worked perfectly until I got a primary power arc
> which took out two IGBTs:
>
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19795.jpg
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19796.jpg
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19797.jpg
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19798.jpg
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/Frame19799.jpg
>
> Damage seems very minimal at first look.  Just two
> IGBTs blew their tops ;-)
>
> http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/IGBTsetTwo.jpg
>
> There is a DIVX movie here (16Meg) of the last few
> moments.
>
>
http://drsstc.com/~terrell/pictures/FirstFullRun-short.avi
>
> So it runs great!! and the two IGBT explosions, so
> far, are well explained...
>
> Replace the IGBTs and make a strike rail and off to
> the next road trip ;-))
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Terry
>
>
>



	
		
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