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Hi cikljamas,
The toroid does NOT hook directly up to this circuit. This circuit drives the gate of a Power MOSFET or the base of a Power Transistor. Or even better, the circuit drives a Gate Driver which in turn drives the power components. The PWM square pulse output of the circuit is from U1C (bottom center). VIN (+ )is your PWM control. This controls the duty cycle and U1C is used as a comparator to make its output swing full voltage (+) or 'zero volts' when compared to V-. As the triangle wave crosses the reference voltage Vin on the non-inverting input to U1C, the output follows but with infinite gain because there is no feedback between U1C's output and its (-) and (+) inputs. As the triangle wave crosses VIN (+) again in the other direction, U1C's output flips again at infinite gain and generates the square waveform vs time.
I am not settled on the transformer because I'm confused. We are NOT making Hydroxy. So then, is a secondary winding necessary ? For the charging effect, don't we just want to direct the field collapse back to the battery via HV Diode(s)? If so, then do we need three (3) windings ? Do we need three (3) different frequencies ? Do they need to be synchronized in some way. If multiple frequencies are used and synchronization is required then a Micro would be convenient, but in Tesla's day he would build a commutator with brushes in the proper arrangement to create the phase and synchronicity and then spin THAT with a motor to generate the PWM to pulse the coil(s). One way or another I think we need a toroidal core made from choice materials but I still don't know why THAT amounts to any more than pulsing a toroidal CHOKE. Last sentence is awkward I know.
So I'm still not really sure what we're building here.
Chime in folks ... pleeeeease,
Greg
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The toroid does NOT hook directly up to this circuit. This circuit drives the gate of a Power MOSFET or the base of a Power Transistor. Or even better, the circuit drives a Gate Driver which in turn drives the power components. The PWM square pulse output of the circuit is from U1C (bottom center). VIN (+ )is your PWM control. This controls the duty cycle and U1C is used as a comparator to make its output swing full voltage (+) or 'zero volts' when compared to V-. As the triangle wave crosses the reference voltage Vin on the non-inverting input to U1C, the output follows but with infinite gain because there is no feedback between U1C's output and its (-) and (+) inputs. As the triangle wave crosses VIN (+) again in the other direction, U1C's output flips again at infinite gain and generates the square waveform vs time.
I am not settled on the transformer because I'm confused. We are NOT making Hydroxy. So then, is a secondary winding necessary ? For the charging effect, don't we just want to direct the field collapse back to the battery via HV Diode(s)? If so, then do we need three (3) windings ? Do we need three (3) different frequencies ? Do they need to be synchronized in some way. If multiple frequencies are used and synchronization is required then a Micro would be convenient, but in Tesla's day he would build a commutator with brushes in the proper arrangement to create the phase and synchronicity and then spin THAT with a motor to generate the PWM to pulse the coil(s). One way or another I think we need a toroidal core made from choice materials but I still don't know why THAT amounts to any more than pulsing a toroidal CHOKE. Last sentence is awkward I know.
So I'm still not really sure what we're building here.
Chime in folks ... pleeeeease,
Greg
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