Re: Successful rebuild

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Hi all, 
   Just a question out of curiosity:  Has anyone ever tried running a NST, 
after depotting, without oil?   It seems to me that the potting is just there 
to prevent moisture from getting into the transformer(since they might get 
exposed to weather).  I am not suggesting anyone try it, but just wondered if 
they'd run ok in air.  What makes me think of this is that I have a 10kV, 
23ma tranny(sounds like an OBIT, huh?) in a capacitor tester called a HI-POT 
tester.  It is dry and has worked this way for many years. 
Mike