Author: hakasays
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Successful Linear Amplifier Firmware Hack
A mentally arduous week finally paid off. I had been burning through the past week trying to hack the firmware on a HAM radio amplifier. The problem is there are many interlocks on it, and one interlock (gain too low) caused it to trip constantly when attempting to power a Tesla coil with it. I…
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Project Update – 5/31/2022 – “A hacking we will go”
aka – ‘Fixing that which is not yet broken’ 5/27 Traced out the main components on the HF amplifier, found what looks like the main relay driver for the amp.I’m pretty sure if I feed this 24v to trip the relay, it will force itself to be always-on regardless of what the computer says. This…
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Shop Notes 5/26 – New HF Amplifier, Trials and Tribulations
I received a high-power HF amplifier so I can properly perform some larger-scale Tesla and Cosmic Induction Generator in the near future (and at the upcoming conference). So of course I started tuning things up and seeing how it handles. Being a fancy high-tech box, it has a lot of automatic interlocks that protect the…
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Tesla Coil Dielectric Influence Experiment (5/3/22)
Did a quick mockup test with a Tesla Extra coil to see how increased surface and bulk capacitance affects the result. Surprisingly, despite the coil being a huge dielectric resonator, covering the entire thing in LDPE tape had no measurable impact on the resonant frequency, nor the Q (resonance) factor. Still incredibly sensitive to just…
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Shop Notes 4/6 – Finishing+Assembling a 3kw Linear Amplifier
Finally getting in the last remaining parts to assemble this beautiful HAM radio linear amplifier that will soon be used in various Tesla-type experiments, so it’s finally time to put the major parts together and start testing to see if it lets the magic smoke out or not.🤫 I’m thinking of mounting inside a 3u…