AVR-Chat

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Bob Paddock <bob.paddock@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was hoping someone here had done "exploding wire" experiments and
>> could offer guidance.
>
> http://www.pupman.com/hvlistarchives/
> http://www.fusor.net
>
> Zetex has Avalanche rated transistors.
> http://www.zetex.com/3.0/3-3-2b.asp?rid=14
>
> If money is no object also look up Saturable Reactors
> made from Metglas.


I'm not trying to explode the wire, I'm just figuring that those folks
would know where the limits are.
The target here is to get up in about the 1.5T range in a small coil,
with about 100uS risetime.