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Re: DC TC



That's an excellent question! I tried it once myself. I used a rectifier on
each leg to do the full wave thing. I did not use a filter cap. I simply
threw the diodes in and didn't change anything else. This did not work as
well as well as using one leg of the NST in the AC mode. I really expected
an improvement with DC but got the reverse.Can someone please tell me why?
The rectifiers were rated for that voltage and current and were still good
after the run (my cap told me so when I discharged it-with a high voltage
cable in case anyone was wondering :-))

The added inconvenience is that now you MUST discharge your cap. Your
transformer will not do it for you with the diodes in place. Of course it's
a good idea not to depend on the transformer winding to discharge the cap
anyhow even when running AC because something could go wrong. "Transformer
discharge" also will not work for multiple caps in series.

S.G.

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Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: DC TC


> Original Poster: "David W" <Dav_W926-at-hotmail-dot-com>
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> Theoretically you could use high voltage diodes to run a DC tesla coil
from
> NSTs without any modification, right? Would that have any positive effects
on
> the caps? Any other "side effects?"
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