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SSTC- feedback vs. none



Original poster: "K. C. Herrick" <kchdlh@xxxxxxx>

A voice from the past, still around...

My "bucket-primary" SSTC sits there un-fixed but I hope to get to it again before I expire. In the interim it's occurred to me to ask, Why bother to employ feedback to sustain oscillation, when circuit phase-shift and/or inability to track exactly the secondary's Fr requires that excitation cease after the first few cycles, to evade that pesky "notch"? Absent contrary words from the wise, I'm inclined to change my setup to a) stop each spark event after a max. of just a few cycles and b) merely use the starting-oscillator I've already incorporated to provide the drive to the IGBTs. I currently employ a binary counter to cut off the drive, which would yield cutoff at only 2, 4, 8, etc. cycles. If I change that to a decimal-output counter, I can cut off at 1, 2, 3,...10 (or maybe 9) excitation cycles.

What say you?

Ken Herrick