Re: High Current Battery Powered TC supply.

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Subject: Re: High Current Battery Powered TC supply.
From: Chris Francis <cfrancis-at-infinet-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:06:55 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 05:45 PM 9/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Sam Barros" <sambarros-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
>
>>Ok here goes another one. I am sure that a lot of you have tried
>>shorting a common 9 volt radio battery across the terminals of a MOT.
>>I am also sure that you noticed the great big spark that you get when
--snip--
> I did something like that: I dipped a 220V in /9V out transformer in 
>enamel to improve it's insulation and connected the 9V out to a relay. I 
>wired the relay so that it would be swithing on and off aoutomatically, 
>real quick. The result was over 10KV out with only 2 9V batteries. It 
>runs a TV cascade at full power very reliably and makes nice over 1cm 
--snip--

Why would you want to do this? A 9 volt battery is never going to have
enough power to do much more than power a stun gun. Would you want to use
batteries for portability? By the time you get enough batteries together
(100's of pounds worth?) wouldn't you be better off using a conventional
coil and a generator?

Im sure it could be done, but is it worth the trouble?

Chris