[Robotgroup] High Voltage

[Don Colbath]

One of the links Mike or Vern sent around recently, some Brit whom's into
Tubes (excuse me Valves) had Marx generator plans.  Simple, lots of sparks.

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Wise" <edwin at simreal.com>
To: "Austin Robotgroup Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: [Robotgroup] High Voltage


Hey Peeps,

I'm ramping up to make some high-voltage stuff for ... umm... because
I can dammit!  And I want HF/HV sources for special electrical (and
fire and plasma) effects this May, October, and going forward from
there as well.

I'm not an analog engineer so the reading I've been doing has been
quite intimidating (but I've plowed through a STACK of stuff in both
book and online form).

I've also found, maybe, some guys (via a Craigslist post, of all
things) who have or will-be doing some Tesla work, to act as partners
in crime, er, collaborators.

Of course, I also thought of y'all -- anyone in here want to hook up
and work with me on this thing?

I want to go with solid-state control, on all versions; with self-
tuned resonance for the tesla, and a variety of pulse control for both
tesla and other HV (e.g. flyback), not unlike what the singing coils
do, but not necessarily to make them sing (you get different discharge
effects at different frequencies and whatnot).

So. whaddya say?  I'll buy most of the parts.  How can you resist?


Edwin!

PS: I'm North, IH35 and Parmer.

PPS: I have in hand (from a friend, who owns them) two ancient tesla
secondary windings, a bloody weird transformer, and an interesting
flat tesla primary coil, from the movie biz.  Ancient.  And there are
a few MORE of these in Ohio we are plotting to transport. It would be
neat to spark these up too.
---
Edwin Wise, Rogue Technologist
Simulated Reality Systems, LLC
www.simreal.com



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