After working on this for my university project I was able to get my SSTC to produce this. I was using 60 VDC and my circuit is somewhat similar to Kaizer II.
With the grounded rod the streams went to approximately 6/7cm. Is that what you’d expect for 60 VDC with a full H bridge?
Hello, so I have followed Kaizer SSTC full H bridge pretty much to except for not using diodes on the DC bus and I’m using 60VDC instead of AC supply.
I was able to switch on the Tesla coil today but my sparks were roughly 1cm. I do have wires everywhere (spaghetti wiring), I plan to clean it up and make them much shorter but I wanted to see if my circuit works (since it is not a one for one of the Kaizer design).
Could these long wires be causing the short sparks? Also I use a Pi Pico as the interrupter and my waveform at the end of the secondary side GDT is not exactly perfect squared which could also be a cause. Is there a way to protect the antenna because I feel maybe it is picking up too much noise.
Additionally for the capacitor tank I am only using 1 of the 0.68uF capacitors? Should I use 2?
I understand the distance we’ve covered towards disclosure in the past 8 or so years is leaps and bounds compared to the past 50 years. But, these last 2 or 3 years and been like the above.