Re: MOT's MOC's on small coil

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

The OEM MOT capacitors will probably blowup in a tesla coil tank circuit
(too much loss)...  However, there is a chance (untested?) that Marc's
triggered gap can fire very low voltage but high power (low voltage but big
tank cap and small primary coil) circuits.  In that case a Tank circuit
with only say 3000 volts peak may fire fine.  The 30kV of the triggered gap
will easily get the gap fired so that even a low voltage primary circuit
will go.

Cheers,

	Terry




At 07:29 PM 10/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>The MOT probably puts out around 2100vac, and it isn't
>enough. I suggest using some of the MOT caps to build
>a voltage multiplier. A voltage tripler with a
>triggered spark gap might work. Don't try to use MOT
>caps for the tank cap. I suggest an MMC.
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
>
>--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
>> Original poster: "Shaun R. Phelps by way of Terry
>> Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <shaun-at-visorloop-dot-com>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am considering building a smaller coil with a
>> microwave oven transformer
>> and a microwave oven cap(s).  But, I am not sure of
>> the tank cap
>> configuration I would need.  I have quite a few
>> 0.7uF 2100VAC MOC's, but am
>> unsure as to how much current and voltage (assume
>> ~2KVAC) is coming from the
>> MOT, which I would need to approximate the size of
>> the cap needed.  Any
>> approximations?  Is this a waste of time?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Shaun.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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