-scr can manage high amps but no completely shutdown.
-powermosfet/mosfet can use replace but need bipolar signal to swith on/off(perfect square wave from pll can't power off)
-relay switch can replace too but if high frequency cant work but good on lower frequency because it completely switch off
-npn transistor can use as switch if it can manage high amps is the best one because it's not only has switching but it can amplify power
-op amp same npn transistor but more complex(i have a little knowledge about that)
-fet can use as switch too but the same problem in high amps
have many things too use but in solution i thinks
npn transistor that can manage high enough amps about 30 amps and 100V cause it has a little spike(HV spike) and fast switching 100khz
just 50 cent
thanks all
geenee
the SCR can be replaced by a Mosfet driven by a TC 4420 and this pulsed by an optocoupler. I assume that is what geenee talks about "bipolar". TC 4420 provides a switch to GND and a switch to +VCC so that Mosfets gets sufficiently edged pulses.
adding an EEC to 8XA needs the Mosfet switch in the same place as former SCR because EEC is in parallel to the switch in the positiv path. EEC makes a major change in oscillation patterns.
also usage of measurement equippment in the circuit makes major changes to the oscillation behaviour.
I have successfully installed the whole installation.
Mosfet switch only fails connected to a Gas Processor because GP is a real capacitor without relevant electron flow. in that case the Mosfets switches but after miliseconds GP is charged and there is no more pulsing.
another problem is high voltage. for high voltage in the KV range there are no switches > 2000 V for the positive path. that makes the VIC necessary where pulsing takes place in the primary coil.
but dealing with really high voltages makes standard wire isolations fail after short time of usage.
special winding techniques, pancake bobbins, epoxy vacuum isolation and extremely high isolated fabricated wires are the way to go at that voltage range.
Meyers tech always looks easy but in detail it´s a very tricky one. Meyer needed 15 years of development for success and lots of background know how and no one can pass that development effort. think about the different ways Meyer has pulsed his WFCs and GPs. That were no alternatives but dedicated solutions for a special hardware environment. Once the hardware changed of course the pulsing circuit also changed.
so all his component values (i.e. the resistor for the SCR) were exactly calculated for ONE well known operating condition.
unfortunately we don´t know all exact operating conditions and those guys who had access to Meyer´s technology in 2008/2009 destroyed it by cutting wire connections of the whole system to"examine" built in components like the WFC and the GP. and they unfortunately failed to look at other components also relevant for Meyer technology. those pictures they made during their "examination" stayed hidden to public until 2011!
for that part of detailed examination we now are on our own
:-(my experiments have shown to me: if I do something wrong I blow up something, if I do something right I also blow up something because I have successfully solved a problem but instantaneously run into the next (unexpected) problem.
nevertheless the second kind of blow up is the better one because taking place at a higher level of problem solving.
I told you at another place in this forum that I use a specialized µC chip for timing issues. It´s much more efficient and precise than all up to now used 555 or 4046 based circuit designs because it supports finding resonance effects (there are so many different in a working circuit environment!) by using an extreme fine granulation in frequency and duty cycle and further advantages. But there is no need to go more into detail for that circuit until people have experienced that timing features of 8XA and Rustic´s have shown to be insufficient for true resonance exploration.
of course this kind of trouble doesn´t pop up until the fundamental circuit design problems are solved for one.
hope that helps overcome startup problems with the circuit design.
bussi04