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Jan Wagner's direct-drive half-bridge SSTC

two IRF150s off 230 V mains · 120 kHz · just under 30 cm · by Jan 2002

The simplest of his coils, on a page the Internet Archive first saw on 7 Jan 2002. A half bridge of two IRF150s drives the primary directly, drawing 3 A from the 230 V mains. The large secondary is wound on two polypropylene buckets with no topload and resonates at 120 kHz. It makes streamers and swords a little under 30 cm long. He notes that a 300 kHz secondary gave only 10 cm at the same input current. The schematic on the page, a 555 for the pulses and a discrete gate driver through a pulse transformer, is the one his general SSTC notes grew out of.

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