Lords of the Ring

[giantkiller]

GK,

I think I missed something somewhere along the line. The way you were jumping around and praising yourself, I thought that you were running your house off of the TPU unit. You mean you didn't even hook up a light bulb to see if it would glow?? I don't know about you, but I think it would be the first thing I tried.

Tim

That level of completion is not designed in yet. The list is in a previous post. I just bought the relays for the runaway firewall and am doing the logistics of where on my boards they will go.
OBTW, because I followed orders, now I am just having fun. My level of happiness was one of immense gratitude to others.
Build one.

[CTG Labs]

GK,

Terminals now finished, we are ready to rock and roll!



D.

[CTG Labs]

Ok, GK,

All wired and ready to be fired!


D.

[Thedane]

Hi,

I've been following this interesting thread for a couple of days now.
I can't say that I have the definite answer to why the units can kick, but take a look at the attached scans from my physics book.

To me it sounds like it is "just" the wires attracting/repelling each other that causes the unit to vibrate/kick. There are no "magic" in that - unfortunately 

Another thing that baffels me is that some drives the coils way too hard. If the coils are pulsed with square signals you will have a LOT of harmonic signals on the secondary side of the transformer. (Yes, you will have a magnetic coupling between the primary, secondary and all other coils within its flux lines. An ideal square signal consists of every odd harmonic you can think of, which could be the reason the coil(s) heats up)

The video is proof that electricity isn't something to be toyed with 
More fun stuff at: http://ee.stlcc.info/movies/

[giantkiller]

@Dave,
Hi,
So that is CTG7? This must the pocket version. Very, very nice. I will be interested in the specs diff based upon your size change(3"?) with iron core. This will show important results!
Great job, Dave!