spacecase0
earth human
I already tried to make the expanded quarts crystals with 19KV, 50mA (DC) switched with a rotary switch I built, but I guess that is just not enough power to make it work, or quite possible not high enough frequency.
seems like high power RF is the way to go. (this is how others said they did it) and if you can break them with high power RF, then it should have enough power to strip the bits of crystal out of a solid matrix.
sadly the highest power out I have in the correct frequency range is 100W, and by all accounts, that is not nearly enough power. and I only have 45W (PEP) out if I want to drive it with my arbitrary waveform generators. (but that is likely enough power to drive a larger power amplifier if I ever manage to get one)
I have a few IGBT transistors (toshiba MG300Q1US41) that can deal with 2KW each, but the upper switching limit is about 500KHz, so with any sort of good waveform shape, I will likely only get 50KHz out of them. not sure if that is high enough frequency to justify bothering to build anything with them.
maybe I should use a microwave oven transformer and set it up with a spark gap and resonant circuit. and set up 2 of them on separate frequencies to get the wave form shape needed.
another thought is that IRF510 is likely fast enough (or things like it), would just take quite a few of them, and I have hope of affording them, so maybe that is the route to go...
been thinking about how to make the expanded crystals for a while now, even been dreaming about it lately.
seems like high power RF is the way to go. (this is how others said they did it) and if you can break them with high power RF, then it should have enough power to strip the bits of crystal out of a solid matrix.
sadly the highest power out I have in the correct frequency range is 100W, and by all accounts, that is not nearly enough power. and I only have 45W (PEP) out if I want to drive it with my arbitrary waveform generators. (but that is likely enough power to drive a larger power amplifier if I ever manage to get one)
I have a few IGBT transistors (toshiba MG300Q1US41) that can deal with 2KW each, but the upper switching limit is about 500KHz, so with any sort of good waveform shape, I will likely only get 50KHz out of them. not sure if that is high enough frequency to justify bothering to build anything with them.
maybe I should use a microwave oven transformer and set it up with a spark gap and resonant circuit. and set up 2 of them on separate frequencies to get the wave form shape needed.
another thought is that IRF510 is likely fast enough (or things like it), would just take quite a few of them, and I have hope of affording them, so maybe that is the route to go...
been thinking about how to make the expanded crystals for a while now, even been dreaming about it lately.