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Hi Holtage,
An inverter needs DC as the input power. Since we are switching power back and forth the inverter would see that as AC power and the inverter would not work and would probably even be destroyed if it didn't have polarity protection built in.
And an inverter is an inductive load as it switches the DC power into AC power it does act more as an inductive load than a resistive load.
You will run into all kinds of problems if you try to switch the transistors directly from the output of a 555 timer chip. You can use the timer chip to switch the opto-isolators. The opto-isolators do not make the circuit more tedious. They actually make the circuit much easier to control and less complicated than without them.
The problem with using the output of the 555 directly is that for a NPN transistor to turn on, the base must be made more positive than the emitter. Since the transistors in the Tesla Switch are all over the place there is no way to control them directly that will make each different base positive in relation to that transistor's emitter. I hope that makes sense.
You should also be aware that the circuit you are looking at was developed over several months of effort mostly by Matt with some of the rest of us helping with the testing. If you want it to work you need to build it like shown.
Carroll
An inverter needs DC as the input power. Since we are switching power back and forth the inverter would see that as AC power and the inverter would not work and would probably even be destroyed if it didn't have polarity protection built in.
And an inverter is an inductive load as it switches the DC power into AC power it does act more as an inductive load than a resistive load.
You will run into all kinds of problems if you try to switch the transistors directly from the output of a 555 timer chip. You can use the timer chip to switch the opto-isolators. The opto-isolators do not make the circuit more tedious. They actually make the circuit much easier to control and less complicated than without them.
The problem with using the output of the 555 directly is that for a NPN transistor to turn on, the base must be made more positive than the emitter. Since the transistors in the Tesla Switch are all over the place there is no way to control them directly that will make each different base positive in relation to that transistor's emitter. I hope that makes sense.
You should also be aware that the circuit you are looking at was developed over several months of effort mostly by Matt with some of the rest of us helping with the testing. If you want it to work you need to build it like shown.
Carroll
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