Solid State Tesla Coil (SSTC) - Part 3

This is part 3 of my video series on designing and building a Solid State Tesla Coil (SSTC).
Part 1:
• Solid State Tesla Coil...
Part 2:
• Solid State Tesla Coil...
In this video I'll show the following:
-How to build a full H-bridge driver
-How to use secondary coil current as feedback to drive the primary coil
-How to adjust the phase of the driver to maximize output power
-Results of running the coil off mains (120VAC) instead of 30V DC
Hardware used is mostly the same as part II, with a few differences:
-IXTQ36N30P 300V / 36A MOSFETs for the H-bridge
-2200 uF 400V Filter Capacitor for mains voltage
-BOTH sides of the gate drive transformer primary have DC blocking capacitors. Having DC blocking on only one side caused some weird level shifting problems that resulted in erratic output.
-300A/1600V Bridge Rectifier (massive overkill, but i happened to have it already)
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Music Used
Serge Pavkin - Modern Technology
Serge Pavkin - Heavy Industry
Serge Pavkin - Fundamental Analysis
Serge Pavkin - Digital Future
Serge Pavkin - Innovative technology

[@Teslaundmehr]

Oh I love it!!!! From now on you are one of my favourite youtube Channels!!

[@NerdlabsSci]

THOSE ARCS ARE INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!

[@CuriousChan]

This SSTC circuit is doable, thanks to your awesome, well-explained and easy to follow tutorial😄

[@arccraver]

Woahhhh! Why didn't I know about your channel when I first started my electronics journey!?? Love your videos and the way you explain the working principals of circuits, very similar to 3Blue1Brown.

[@curiousviewer5991]

Nice! Always love the circuit diagrams.

[@user-ez8kx3zw4g]

Seems, on

[@alexandrnikitin1269]

best explanation in the world. thanks.

[@AlexBrothersYT]

Awesome video and design!

[@Magneticitist]

Cool man great video and build. I like how pulling the feedback high works well at interrupting, I'd have figured it may cause some problems only forcing one of the fets off but it makes for a really easy addon. At 50hz bps may as well try it unfiltered CW also.

[@RicardoPenders]

Nice arcs, that's what I want. I managed to get a couple tesla coils going, one mini tesla coil did exceptionally well, I think it was only 10cm tall but the arcs it could make were double in distance of how tall it was about 20cm but after that I didn't get it that good anymore, however I now have built a few signal generators and I now have an oscilloscope so it should be easier now, this video sparked my interest again to look at my tesla coils I have and maybe I can improve my circuit taking yours as an example.

[@anthonyvolkman2338]

Well done!

[@LabCoatz_Science]

This is great! I'm actually making a video of a very similar circuit next (H-bridge, antenna feedback, and 340V with IGBTs).

[@jameslucarelli7172]

Hi at around

[@proffessornukem8775]

I had an idea for the interrupter I wanted to run by you, what if you used a IC with NAND gates, something like a 74hc00 in order to interrupt the signal going to the mosfet drivers. This in my understanding will shut off both the drivers instead of leaving one driver active.

[@Livewire460]

Awesome! Nice work! The How about trying to make your coil QCW?

[@shawncalderon4950]

Great video! Where can I find schematics?

[@AnalogDude_]

16:20

[@theunknowngamer2789]

liked ur video

[@ettechindian5074]

how much is the winding turns of gdt transformer

[@proffessornukem8775]

I noticed that on the new circuit there is no duty cycle adjustment, I'm guessing due the the impedence of the gdt shot through is avoided. Im still new to electronics and I want to know if you removed the duty cycle adjustment because of the fact that the voltage on the gates take time to rise up and the mosfets have a relatively high resistance as the one switchs on and the other off?