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Happy Easter!!
Well...the super high voltage alternator didn't perform as hoped. It failed to produce the amps needed, though the voltage was over 1000 VDC. It was such high voltage it smoked my digital multimeter (over 1000VDC). But it wasn't enough amps to do any work.
So back to the original high voltage alternator made with 28 AWG wire (40-60 turns per loop). Stan wrote in his book that about 10-40 amps was used in one of his diagrams. Diagram below.
I've removed the electronics and I'm back to running straight from the inverter through the variable transformer. Diagram below.
I'll be testing the 100uf and the 40uf cap on the Dodge during the tests this coming week. I keep burning up those 1n5408 diodes (1000v/3amp) so I've ordered some bad ass NTE5817 diodes (1000v/10amp). With these new diodes I should be able to run a hell of a lot more amps through the system. They are about 3 bux a pop where as the old diodes were about .30 cents a pop.
I also ordered some new SS304 tube with a thicker wall. It will give me a .025 thousandths gap. The current tube cell gives me a .60 thousandths gap. I'm having a new punch fabricated to make the smaller spacers.
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Hi Kevin
Try placing your high voltage diodes in parallel for the higher current!
Ken
Kevin wrote " I tried that Saturday night with 10 in parrallel for each plug, 40 total, and smoked all of them in one test about 10 minutes long. So I bought some 10amp/1000volt diodes just yesterday so they should be here by the end of this week. Otherwise I'd have to carry a trailer full of 3amp diodes where ever I drove the Dodge to just to make it... But I think these 10amp diodes will do the trick. I'm going to buy/make some heatsinks for them also."
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I read somewhere about the phenomenon that diodes in parallel do as "current hogging". Apparently, unless they are perfectly matched, one diode in a bank of several will try and carry the whole load. If it ain't rated for it, the magic smoke gets loose.
Is that what happened? I dunno
Turtle
Kevin wrote " I think youre right, but I had to try it... they smoked..."
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