8kW ZVS driven Tesla Coil

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  • Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
  • DRSSTC (Tesla coil) driven by a ZVS oscillator. Power from 240VAC 60Hz line, rectified but not filtered. Power ramps up and down 120 times per second, so not quite continuous-wave. Average power is 8kW.
    Compared to typical pulsed DRSSTCs, peak power is far lower, around 24kW here. Arcs are shorter and thicker, which is good for coloring arcs with metal salts and other atypical breakout points. Arcs here are hitting grounded foil 1.25 meters above breakout. Compared to my interrupted DRSSTC with similar average power that can hit grounded poles 3m away.
    Design details for this coil are now posted to the High Voltage Forum in following thread:
    highvoltageforum.net/index.ph...
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Комментарии • 34

  • @voinea12
    @voinea12 16 дней назад +1

    This can definitely power the graviflyer

  • @inventorbrothers7053
    @inventorbrothers7053 24 дня назад +2

    Wow the CW sparks are beautiful ❤️ an engineering masterpiece

    • @davekni
      @davekni  24 дня назад +2

      Thank you for the compliment! I also tend to enjoy these shorter thicker arcs more than the long impulsive ones from my conventional DRSSTC.

  • @Pestek997
    @Pestek997 Месяц назад +4

    I sees many of the teslas coils but yours different, the discharge look so fast. 😄 Is just amazing :3

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад +3

      Key difference is that this coil is CW rather than short bursts of higher power. Concentrates arc power closer to coil.

  • @PIETROLS
    @PIETROLS Месяц назад +1

    this is so incredible man

  • @sa8die
    @sa8die Месяц назад +2

    amazing,.nice

  • @SalzmanSoftware
    @SalzmanSoftware Месяц назад +3

    Styropyro v2.0

  • @Magneticitist
    @Magneticitist Месяц назад +3

    Haha wow! Also, largest spinner I've ever seen.

    • @Hoomanrahimi
      @Hoomanrahimi Месяц назад +1

      This is the zvs drive for drsstc I told you once and asked you t try .

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад

      @@Hoomanrahimi There are downsides to this ZVS topology driving Tesla coils. I'll get more into details of that in my upcoming High Voltage Forum post. Similar performance could be achieved by a more common H-Bridge series primary drive if driven CW at same 8kW average power.

  • @dragonicdragon3460
    @dragonicdragon3460 Месяц назад +1

    When Styropyro made his super strong Tesl Coil I think he put a faraday cage around it cause of the radiation

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад +2

      Radiation concerns fall in to categories. For human health, not really a concern here. Magnetic field is same order as being close to an induction cooktop. Electric field is mostly shorted out by human body conductivity. For radio interference, this coil CW at ~70kHz, far below frequency of most communications.

    • @dragonicdragon3460
      @dragonicdragon3460 Месяц назад +1

      @@davekni huh interesting. Well, good to know youre not unknowingly giving yourself cancer ^^

    • @davekni
      @davekni  29 дней назад +1

      @@dragonicdragon3460 Just dawned on me what you might be thinking about: Several large TC setups include a Faraday cage, not around the coil, but rather around a person standing close to coil, close enough for arcs to hit them. Instead of hitting the person directly, arcs hit Faraday cage and pass around person to ground.
      BTW, when I run my larger DRSSTC, I do put grounded poles around it. Not a complete cage, but enough to reduce field past poles.

    • @dragonicdragon3460
      @dragonicdragon3460 29 дней назад +1

      @@davekni ahhh oke ye that makes sense lol. Dont wanna get fried

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 29 дней назад

      @@davekni Nah, because not only will it produce emissions at 70khz, but also at the fundamentals. So anyone out there using AM modes on a radio will see significant noise.

  • @johnwynne-qx6br
    @johnwynne-qx6br 29 дней назад +1

    Thumbs 👍

  • @T2D.SteveArcs
    @T2D.SteveArcs Месяц назад +3

    Hey thats cool, by ZVS are you meaning the Mazzilli oscillator mate?
    Thanks Steve

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад +3

      Yes, Mazzilli oscillator with added gate drive circuitry to make it work reliably using 1200V IGBTs and max current of ~100A.

    • @T2D.SteveArcs
      @T2D.SteveArcs Месяц назад +1

      @@daveknicool😎 you added gate drive ICs ?

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад +1

      @@T2D.SteveArcs Not ICs, emitter followers. NPN/PNP emitter follower pairs, one pair for each of the two IGBTs. I'll post a schematic, scope captures, and more details to the High Voltage Forum, but that may be a couple weeks out.

    • @davekni
      @davekni  Месяц назад +1

      @@T2D.SteveArcs Not totem poles, emitter followers. Voltage swing after feedback diodes is already very fast due to high operating voltage. No need to "square" it. Need to provide higher gate drive current, especially for rising gate edges without requiring an excessively low pull-up resistor value after diodes (which would dissipate excessive power).

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 29 дней назад

      @@davekni I always wondered if you could just drive these coils with a simple oscillator followed by a generic RF amplifier. If you know the resonant frequency do you really need a feedback/flyback style circuit?

  • @manreaper1238
    @manreaper1238 20 дней назад

    Which transistors u use? And how they feels themselves?

    • @davekni
      @davekni  17 дней назад

      Design details for this coil are now posted to the High Voltage Forum in following thread:
      highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=3057.msg21792#msg21792
      Two IGBTs total, one for each side, STGYA75H120DF2, as shown in schematic of above thread. Also discussed there: For making this video I did not have cooling fan power connected. Copper heat spreader under STGYA75H120DF2 increased from 22C initially to 31C by end of testing and video.

  • @lonelyelectron5283
    @lonelyelectron5283 18 дней назад

    what igbt do u use?

    • @davekni
      @davekni  16 дней назад

      Design details for this coil are now posted to the High Voltage Forum in following thread:
      highvoltageforum.net/index.php?topic=3057.msg21792#msg21792
      Two IGBTs total, one for each side, STGYA75H120DF2, as shown in schematic of above thread.