Speedy78
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I guess I will go with the less technical answer of a lot then lol.
Does anyone know a good source of HV fast diodes? I saw some on eBay, but they are charging 5x what
they're worth.
Ideally, they would be like 5 - 10kV <500ns recovery time, the current doesn't have to be anything
spectacular, like not even 100mA. I was trying to use the diode built into a flyback transformer, but the
inverter on the input is a 2 transistor SLR and doesn't like having half the phase swinging unloaded. With
that approach it would take 4 flybacks to build a bridge, and they are getting in short supply these days.
Does the whole thing need to be cutting board or just the top piece? The base of my coil will sit on top of this and the hv wires will go around to the the base and connect to the rsg so the top should be completely away from any hv except where it exits the box. I'll have to get some of that tubing and double insulate it inside the box and where it exits. Single insulated to the rsg to make it easy to connect and disconnect.
Found some pp sheets 1/4 inch thick on the bay. Good price and size. May get a couple and use that for my rsg. Couple questions though.
When screw get the pp together in the spark gap area can I use metal screws? Or is there some other method I should use to secure cut pieces together.
How do I build HV terminals? It would be neat to have two nst style terminals back on the back so I can just bolt on either the coil or whatever I want to fry. I see some on the bay but if they can be made cheaper I'llgo that route .