Re: Alternative supply for tesla coils

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• Subject: Re: Alternative supply for tesla coils
• From: "chris morgan" <crmorgan-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:04:18 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

>From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Alternative supply for tesla coils
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:49:40 -0700
>
>Original Poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> 
>
>> Isn't the insulation on MOTs the same insulation on the secondaries 
of 
>> NST's?  I it'll last on 15 KV, why not 8?
>
>Nope... the NST is potted, the MOT isn't. It isn't the winding to 
winding
>insulation you are worried about here, it is the winding to core 
breakdown.
>Plunging the MOT in a bucket of oil would probably solve the insulation
>problem.
>
Are you sure this is the case?  I've read on peoples sites that they've 
unpotted nsts and ran them dry with no ill effects(Chrs Hills's Tesla 
Coil Page http://www.hills2.u-net-dot-com/tesla/neon.htm). Never done it 
myself.  Can any one whose killed a MOT or two describe the mode of 
failure?

Chris, via the inter-thingy

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